Engineering oil accumulation in vegetative tissue

Industrial Oil Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 413-434

  Weselake, Randall J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; C4 plants; Endoplasmic reticulum; Leaves; Plastid; Tobacco; Transcription factors; Triacylglycerol biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84967566826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-893997-98-1.00015-4     Document Type: Chapter

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