The Regulation of Essential Amino Acid Synthesis and Accumulation in Plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 153-178

  Galili, Gad ^a   Amir, Rachel ^b   Fernie, Alisdair R ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

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

Author keywords

Cellular energy; Metabolism; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; PLANT PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CROP; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE;

AMINO ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84968902653     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-043015-112213     Document Type: Review

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