Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Method of introducing a polynucleotide molecule into or... – The polynucleotide alters fat – fatty oil – ester-type wax – or...
Patent
1995-03-07
1998-08-11
McElwain, Elizabeth F.
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Method of introducing a polynucleotide molecule into or...
The polynucleotide alters fat, fatty oil, ester-type wax, or...
435 691, 435 701, 4351723, 4353201, 435243, 4352523, 4352528, 435419, 536 237, A01H 500, C12N 100, C12N 504, C12N 1529
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ABSTRACT:
A purified and isolated DNA sequence encoding lycopene cyclase.
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Cunningham, Jr. Francis Xavier
Gantt Elisabeth
Hirschberg Joseph
McElwain Elizabeth F.
University of Maryland
Yissum Research Development Company of Hebrew University of Jeru
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