Metabolic engineering and applications of flavonoids

Citation
G. Forkmann et S. Martens, Metabolic engineering and applications of flavonoids, CURR OPIN B, 12(2), 2001, pp. 155-160
Citations number
47
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
ISSN journal
09581669 → ACNP
Volume
12
Issue
2
Year of publication
2001
Pages
155 - 160
Database
ISI
SICI code
0958-1669(200104)12:2<155:MEAAOF>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
During the past decade, the increasing knowledge of flavonoid biosynthesis and the important function of flavonoid compounds in plants and in human an d animal nutrition have made the biosynthetic pathways to flavonoids and is oflavonoids excellent targets for metabolic engineering. Recent strategies have included introducing novel structural or regulatory genes, and the ant isense or sense suppression of genes in these pathways.