Metabolic Engineering in Plants to Control Source/sink Relationship and Biomass Distribution
Description:
Traditional methods like pruning and breeding have historically been used in crop production to divert photoassimilates to harvested organs, but molecular biotechnology is now poised to significantly increase yield by manipulating resource partitioning. It was hypothesized that metabolic engineering in targeted sink tissues can favor resource partitioning to increase harvest. Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides (RFOs) are naturally occurring oligosaccharides that are widespread in plants and are …
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Date:
August 2013
Creator:
Lahiri, Ipsita
Partner:
UNT Libraries