Genetics of flavonoids

Natural Products: Phytochemistry, Botany and Metabolism of Alkaloids, Phenolics and Terpenes

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1617-1645

  Pandey, Ramesh Prasad ^a   Sohng, Jae Kyung ^a  

^a SunMoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic pathway; Flavonoids; Metabolic engineering; Microbial factory; Natural products; Novel flavonoids; Production and biotransformation of flavonoids; Proteomics; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977762920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22144-6_52     Document Type: Chapter

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