Metabolic engineering and applications of flavonoids.
During the past decade, the increasing knowledge of flavonoid biosynthesis and the important function of flavonoid compounds in plants and in human and animal nutrition have made the biosynthetic pathways to flavonoids and isoflavonoids excellent targets for metabolic engineering. Recent strategies have included introducing novel structural or regulatory genes, and the antisense or sense suppression of genes in these pathways.
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Technische Universität München, Center of Life and Food Sciences, Department of Plant Science, Chair of Floriculture Crops and Horticultural Plant Breeding, D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany. forkmann@lzw.agrar.tu-muenchen.de
Martens
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D005419:Flavonoids / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000378:metabolism; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000187:drug effects; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D006801:Humans; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense / Q000494:pharmacology; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*
D005419:Flavonoids; D016376:Oligonucleotides, Antisense