Metabolic Engineering in Plants

This edited book highlights the plant and cell/organ culture systems, and environmental and genetic transformation—based modulation of biochemical pathways. Special focus is given to microRNA—based technology, heterologous systems expression of enzymes and pathways leading to products of interest, as well as applications using both model and non—model plant species.

Metabolic engineering is usually defined as the re—routing of one or more enzymatic reactions to generate new compounds, inc...