Terpenes

Plant Secondary Metabolites: Occurrence, Structure and Role in the Human Diet

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 47-101

  Humphrey, Andrew J ^a   Beale, Michael H ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimethylallyl pyrophosphate; Isoprenyl diphosphate isomerase; Prenyltransferases; Terpenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890257881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988558.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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