Metabolic engineering of ketocarotenoid biosynthesis in leaves and flowers of tobacco species

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1263-1269

  Gerjets, Tanja ^a   Sandmann, Manuela ^a   Zhu, Changfu ^b   Sandmann, Gerhard ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

4 ketolutein 4 ketozeaxanthin adinoxanthin ketolase genes crtO and crtW; Nectary carotenoids; Nicotiana glauca; Nicotiana tobaccum

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOPLAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TOBACCO;

CAROTENOIDS; FLOWERS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANT LEAVES; TOBACCO;

CYANOBACTERIA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA GLAUCA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 35748980006     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.200700040     Document Type: Article

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