Perspective: functional genomics towards new biotechnology in medicinal plants

Plant Biotechnology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 69-75

  Yamazaki, Mami ^a   Rai, Amit ^a   Yoshimoto, Naoko ^a   Saito, Kazuki ^a,b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical diversity; Functional genomics; Genome editing; Medicinal plants; SDGs; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042191298     PISSN: 18635466     EISSN: 18635474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11816-018-0476-9     Document Type: Review

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