Nutritious crops producing multiple carotenoids - a metabolic balancing act

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 532-540

  Farré, Gemma ^a   Bai, Chao ^a   Twyman, Richard M ^b   Capell, Teresa ^a   Christou, Paul ^a,c   Zhu, Changfu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CROP; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; POTATO; REVIEW; RICE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CAROTENOIDS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LUTEIN; NUTRITIVE VALUE; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZEA MAYS;

ANIMALIA; ORYZA SATIVA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80053297773     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2011.08.001     Document Type: Review

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