Metabolic engineering of the moss physcomitrella patens to produce the sesquiterpenoids patchoulol and α/β-santalene

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Zhan, Xin ^a   Zhang, Yu Hua ^b   Chen, Dong Fang ^b   Simonsen, Henrik Toft ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Firmenich Aromatics   (China)

Author keywords

Fragrance; Patchoulol; Physcomitrella; Santalene; Sesquiterpenoids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979911437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00636     Document Type: Article

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