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Expression of the Bacterial ubiC Gene Opens a New Biosynthetic Pathway in Plants

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Metabolic Engineering of Plant Secondary Metabolism

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Genetic engineering of plant secondary metabolism may be achieved by overexpression of secondary metabolic genes of the respective plant itself, intended to cause an increase or decrease in the content of a certain secondary metabolite. Instead of the plants’ own genes, bacterial genes catalyzing the same reaction may be used, and other chapters of this book describe such approaches.

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Heide, L. (2000). Expression of the Bacterial ubiC Gene Opens a New Biosynthetic Pathway in Plants. In: Verpoorte, R., Alfermann, A.W. (eds) Metabolic Engineering of Plant Secondary Metabolism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9423-3_12

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