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Edited by: Verpoorte, R.; Alfermann, A.W. © 2000
Springer - Verlag
Description: This book will be a unique source of information for all those involved with plants as chemical factories of fine chemicals and those involved with the quality of food and ornamental plants. It will be useful in teaching graduate courses in the field of metabolic engineering in plants.
Front Matter
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Preface
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Table of Contents
1. Secondary Metabolism
2. General Strategies
3. Agrobacterium, a Natural Metabolic Engineer of Plants
4. Particle Gun Methodology as a Tool in Metabolic Engineering
5. Modulation of Plant Function and Plant Pathogens by Antibody Expression
6. Transcriptional Regulators to Modify Secondary Metabolism
7. Plant Colour and Fragrance
8. Metabolic Engineering of Condensed Tannins and Other Phenolic Pathways in Forage and Fodder Crops
9. Metabolic Engineering of Crops with the Tryptophan Decarboxylase of Catharanthus Roseus
10. Genetic Engineering of Enzymes Diverting Amino Acids into Secondary Metabolism
11. Modification of Plant Secondary Metabolism by Genetic Engineering
12. Expression of the Bacterial ubiC Gene Opens a New Biosynthetic Pathway in Plants
13. Regulation of Tropane Alkaloid Metabolism in Plants an Plant Cell Cultures
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Index
