Why is Golden Rice golden (yellow) instead of red?

Plant Physiology

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 441-450

  Schaub, Patrick ^a   Al Babili, Salim ^a   Drake, Rachel ^b   Beyer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; ISOMERS; RNA;

GOLDEN RICE; PHYTONE SYNTHASE (PSY); TRANSGENIC PHENOTYPE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIOSYNTHESIS; ISOMERS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ORYZA SATIVA;

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID;

ARTICLE; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOIDS; GENETIC VECTORS; HOMOZYGOTE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 27244442974     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.057927     Document Type: Article

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