Enhancing vitamin E in oilseeds: Unraveling tocopherol and tocotrienol biosynthesis

Lipids

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-108

  Hunter, Sarah C ^a   Cahoon, Edgar B ^a  

^a DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Metabolic engineering; Oilseed; Soybean; Tocochromanols; Tocopherols; Tocotrienols; Vitamin E; Vitamin E biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 6 PRENYLBENZOQUINOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; DIMETHYLALLYLTRANSFERASE; HOMOGENTISIC ACID; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHYTOL; TOCOPHEROL; VEGETABLE OIL;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOPLAST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAPESEED; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED;

GLYCINE MAX;

PLANT OILS; SEEDS; TOCOPHEROLS; TOCOTRIENOLS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 34547578677     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: 15589307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-007-3028-6     Document Type: Review

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