Catharanthus roseus: The metabolome that represents a unique reservoir of medicinally important alkaloids under precise genomic regulation

OMICS: Applications in Crop Science

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 325-384

  Shukla, Ashutosh K ^a   Khanuja, Suman P S ^b  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^b Suman Khanuja Innovation Enterprises   (India)

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DOI: 10.1201/b16352     Document Type: Chapter

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