Metabolic engineering of carotenoid accumulation by creating a metabolic sink

Transgenic Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 581-585

  Li, Li ^a   Van Eck, Joyce ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotenoid sequestering structures; Carotenoids; Cauliflower Or gene; Chromoplasts; Metabolic sink

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CAROTENOID;

BRASSICA; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CROP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTID; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BRASSICA; CAROTENOIDS; CATALYSIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PIGMENTATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASTIDS;

BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS;

EID: 34548392317     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-007-9111-1     Document Type: Review

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