The future of starch bioengineering: GM microorganisms or GM plants?
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The future of starch bioengineering: GM microorganisms or GM plants?
Plant starches regularly require extensive modification to permit subsequent applications. Such processing is usually done by the use of chemical and/or physical treatments. The use of recombinant enzymes produced by large-scale fermentation of GM microorganisms is increasingly used in starch processing and modification, sometimes as an alternative to chemical or physical treatments. However, a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Plant Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1664-462X
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00247