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Identifying Substrates and Products of Enzymes of Plant Volatile Biosynthesis with the Help of Metabolic Profiling

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  • Plant Volatile
  • Floral Scent
  • Terpene Synthases
  • Sweet Basil
  • Arabidopsis Flower

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  1. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 48109-1048, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Dorothea Tholl

  2. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 48109-1048, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Feng Chen

  3. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 48109-1048, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Yoko Iijima

  4. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 48109-1048, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Eyal Fridman

  5. Department of Plant Sciences and Institute for Biomedical Science and Biotechnology, University of Arizona, 85721-0036, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    David R. Gang

  6. Department of Vegetable Crops, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, 1021, 30095, Ramat Yishay, Israel

    Efraim Lewinsohn

  7. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 48109-1048, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Eran Pichersky

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  1. W.M. Keck Metabolomics Research Laboratory, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, IA, USA

    Basil J. Nikolau

  2. Departments of Genetics, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, IA, USA

    Eve Syrkin Wurtele

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Tholl, D. et al. (2007). Identifying Substrates and Products of Enzymes of Plant Volatile Biosynthesis with the Help of Metabolic Profiling. In: Nikolau, B.J., Wurtele, E.S. (eds) Concepts in Plant Metabolomics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5608-6_12

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