Improvement of vitamin E quality and quantity in tobacco and lettuce by chloroplast genetic engineering

Transgenic Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 391-402

  Yabuta, Yukinori ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^b   Yoshimura, Sahoko ^b   Suzuki, Akiko ^b   Tamoi, Masahiro ^b   Maruta, Takanori ^b,c   Shigeoka, Shigeru ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Lettuce; Plastid transformation; Tobacco; Tocopherol

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; NICOTIANA OBTUSIFOLIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84874791929     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-012-9656-5     Document Type: Article

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