Vitamin synthesis in plants: Tocopherols and carotenoids

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2006, Pages 711-738

  DellaPenna, Dean ^a   Pogson, Barry J ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Chloroplast; Metabolic engineering; Photosynthesis; Provitamin A; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; TOCOPHEROL;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CYANOBACTERIUM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; REVIEW;

CAROTENOIDS; CYANOBACTERIA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; TOCOPHEROLS;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 33745946053     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.56.032604.144301     Document Type: Review

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