Metabolic engineering of potato tuber carotenoids through tuber-specific silencing of lycopene epsilon cyclase

BACKGROUND: Potato is a major staple food, and modification of its provitamin content is a possible means for alleviating nutritional deficiencies. beta-carotene is the main dietary precursor of vitamin A. Potato tubers contain low levels of carotenoids, composed mainly of the xanthophylls lutein, a...

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Main Authors: Diretto, Gianfranco, Tavazza, Raffaela, Welsch, Ralf, Pizzichini, Daniele, Mourgues, Fabienne, Papacchioli, Velia, Beyer, Peter, Giuliano, Giovanni
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1570464/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16800876
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-6-13
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