Carotenoids Biosynthesis and Their Metabolic Engineering in Plants |
Ha, Sun-Hwa
(Metabolic Engineering Division)
Kim, Jung-Bong (Metabolic Engineering Division) Park, Jong-Sug (Metabolic Engineering Division) Ryu, Tae-Hun (Plant Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, RDA) Kim, Kyung-Hwan (Metabolic Engineering Division) Hahn, Bum-Soo (Metabolic Engineering Division) Kim, Jong-Bum (Metabolic Engineering Division) Kim, Youg-Hwan (Metabolic Engineering Division) |
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