The yield of essential oils in Melaleuca alternifolia (Myrtaceae) is regulated through transcript abundance of genes in the MEP pathway.

Medicinal tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) leaves contain large amounts of an essential oil, dominated by monoterpenes. Several enzymes of the chloroplastic methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway are hypothesised to act as bottlenecks to the production of monoterpenes. We investigated, whether tr...

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Auteurs principaux: Hamish Webb, Robert Lanfear, John Hamill, William J Foley, Carsten Külheim
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Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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