This invention encompasses the identification and isolation genes and gene
fragments that confer altered metabolic characteristics in Nicotiana
benthamiana plants, when expressed using GENEWARE.TM. viral vectors.
These genes are derived from a variety of sources. Expression of these
genes resulted in alterations of the levels of at least one of the
following metabolites: acids, fatty acids, amino acids and related
compounds, branched fatty acids, carbohydrates, hydrocarbons, alkaloids
and other bases, esters, glycerides, phenols and related compounds,
alcohols, alkenes and alkynes, sterols, oxygenated terpenes, and other
isoprenoids, and ketones and quinones.
