Enhanced artemisinin accumulation and metabolic profiling of transgenic Artemisia annua L. plants over-expressing by rate-limiting enzymes from isoprenoid pathway

Journal of Plant Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 655-665

  Alam, Pravej ^a   Kamaluddin, ^b   Khan, Mather Ali ^a   Mohammad, Anis ^a   Khan, Riyazudeen ^a   Abdin, Malik Zainul ^a  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SHER E KASHMIR UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY OF KASHMIR   (India)

Author keywords

A. annua L.; Artemisinin; Metabolic fingerprinting; RT PCR; Transgenic lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904503606     PISSN: 17429145     EISSN: 17429153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17429145.2014.893030     Document Type: Article

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