Engineering microbes for plant polyketide biosynthesis

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages e201210020-

  Lussier, François Xavier ^a   Colatriano, David ^a   Wiltshire, Zach ^a   Page, Jonathan E ^b   Martin, Vincent J J ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Metabolic Engineering; Microbes; Plant Polyketides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902184526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20010370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5936/csbj.201210020     Document Type: Review

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