Metabolic pathways are enzyme-mediated biochemical reactions that lead to biosynthesis (anabolism) or breakdown (catabolism) of natural product small molecules within a cell or tissue. The ...

Metabolic pathways of C3 and C4 plants. (Credit: Williams et al., 2013) What this tells us is that many plants – including food crops and species of trees – which use the C 3 carbon fixing ...

Metabolic engineering ... optimization of existing biochemical pathways or the introduction of pathway components, most commonly in bacteria, yeast or plants, with the goal of high-yield ...