Plant metabolic engineering strategies for the production of pharmaceutical terpenoids

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue November 2016, 2016, Pages

  Lu, Xu ^a   Tang, Kexuan ^b   Li, Ping ^a  

^a CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ectopic expression; Elicitors; Endogenous phytohormones; Medicinal plants; Metabolic regulation; Overexpression; Suppression; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007357558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01647     Document Type: Article

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