Pathway Modulation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Through Metabolic Engineering Using Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Reference Series in Phytochemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 431-462

  Khan, Sana ^a   ur Rahman, Laiq ^a  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

Author keywords

A. tumefaciens; ATMT; Biosynthetic pathway; Genetic engineering; MAPs; Metabolic engineering; Metabolic flux

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042673101     PISSN: 2511834X     EISSN: 25118358     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28669-3_15     Document Type: Chapter

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