Synthetic biology of metabolism: Using natural variation to reverse engineer systems

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-26

  Kliebenstein, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84897030883     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.03.008     Document Type: Review

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