Are designer plant cell walls a realistic aspiration or will the plasticity of the plant's metabolism win out?

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-114

  Doblin, Monika S ^a   Johnson, Kim L ^a   Humphries, John ^a  

^a Tony)   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL STEPS; FUNCTIONAL FOODS; GREEN REVOLUTION; HEALTHY LIFESTYLES; MODERN AGRICULTURES; PLANT BREEDERS; PLANT CELL WALL; VEGETATIVE TISSUE;

AGRICULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES;

BIOMASS;

CALPAIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RECEPTOR LIKE PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE XYLOSE;

ASPIRATION; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT CELL WALL; PLANT METABOLISM; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SENSOR; SYNTHESIS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATES; CELL WALL; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEALTH; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDES; PLANT CELLS; PLANTS;

EID: 84890815528     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.11.012     Document Type: Review

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