Microbial production of plant specialized metabolites

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 465-482

  Suzuki, Shiro ^a,c   Koeduka, Takao ^b   Sugiyama, Akifumi ^a   Yazaki, Kazufumi ^a   Umezawa, Toshiaki ^a,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Flavonoids; Phenylpropanoids; Synthetic biology; Terpenoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923410129     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.14.1003a     Document Type: Review

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