Engineering plastid genomes: Methods, tools, and applications in basic research and biotechnology

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 211-241

  Bock, Ralph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chloroplast transformation; Experimental evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Metabolic engineering; Molecular farming; Plastid transformation; Reverse genetics

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA;

CHLOROPLAST DNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLOROPLAST; CHLOROPLAST GENE; CHLOROPLAST GENOME; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLOROPLASTS; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; GENES, CHLOROPLAST; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, CHLOROPLAST; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84928885296     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050213-040212     Document Type: Article

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