Exploring the metabolic stability of engineered hairy roots after 16 years maintenance

Plants remain a major source of new drugs, leads and fine chemicals. Cell cultures deriving from plants offer a fascinating tool to study plant metabolic pathways and offer large scale production systems for valuable compounds – commercial examples include compounds such as paclitaxel. The major con...

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Main Authors: Suvi Tuulikki Häkkinen, Elisabeth Moyano, Rosa M. Cusido, Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01486/full