Metabolic engineering of beta-carotene and lycopene content in tomato fruit

Plant Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 413-420

  Rosati, Carlo ^a   Aquilani, Riccardo ^a   Dharmapuri, Sridhar ^a   Pallara, Patrizia ^a   Marusic, Carla ^a   Tavazza, Raffaela ^a   Bouvier, Florence ^b   Camara, Bilal ^b   Giuliano, Giovanni ^a  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Antisense; Lycopene beta cyclase; Overexpression

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; BETA CAROTENE; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; LYCOPENE; LYCOPENE BETA CYCLASE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHENOTYPE; TOMATO;

EID: 0033672063     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2000.00880.x     Document Type: Article

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