Understanding and manipulating plant lipid composition: Metabolic engineering leads the way

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 19, Issue , 2014, Pages 68-75

  Napier, Johnathan A ^a   Haslam, Richard P ^a   Beaudoin, Frederic ^a   Cahoon, Edgar B ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLANT;

BIOMASS; LIPIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS;

EID: 84899846298     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2014.04.001     Document Type: Review

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