The plasticity of cyanobacterial metabolism supports direct CO2 conversion to ethylene

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Xiong, Wei ^a   Morgan, John A ^b   Ungerer, Justin ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Maness, Pin Ching ^a   Yu, Jianping ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85020458852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.53     Document Type: Article

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