Engineering synthetic regulatory circuits in plants

Plant Science

Volumn 273, Issue , 2018, Pages 13-22

  Kassaw, Tessema K ^a   Donayre Torres, Alberto J ^a   Antunes, Mauricio S ^a   Morey, Kevin J ^a   Medford, June I ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic circuit; Mathematical modeling; Orthogonal; Plant synthetic biology; Synthetic biology; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; PLANT; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85045462969     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: 18732259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.04.005     Document Type: Article

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