Provitamin a accumulation in cassava (Manihot esculenta) roots driven by a single nucleotide polymorphism in a phytoene synthase gene

Plant Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3348-3356

  Welsch, Ralf ^a   Arango, Jacobo ^a   Bär, Cornelia ^a   Salazar, Bertha ^a   Al Babili, Salim ^a   Beltrán, Jesús ^b   Chavarriaga, Paul ^b   Ceballos, Hernan ^b   Tohme, Joe ^b   Beyera, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MANIHOT ESCULENTA;

EID: 78649529229     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.077560     Document Type: Article

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