Synthetic genome engineering forging new frontiers for wine yeast

Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 112-136

  Pretorius, Isak S ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; CRISPR technology; genome editing; genome scrambling; genome synthesis; Synthetic Biology; synthetic chromosomes; synthetic genomics; Synthetic Yeast Genome (Sc2.0) Project; Yeast 2.0

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CELLS; CHROMOSOMES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CYTOLOGY; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; FOOD ADDITIVES; GENE ENCODING; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; KETONES; PRECISION ENGINEERING; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; SYSTEMS SCIENCE; WINE;

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS; METABOLIC PATHWAY ENGINEERING; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC GENOMICS; YEAST GENOME;

YEAST;

SYNTHETIC DNA;

BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; WINE INDUSTRY; YEAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; WINE;

GENOME, FUNGAL; WINE; YEASTS;

EID: 84982306240     PISSN: 07388551     EISSN: 15497801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2016.1214945     Document Type: Review

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