Metabolic engineering of tomato for high-yield production of astaxanthin

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-67

  Huang, Jun Chao ^a   Zhong, Yu Juan ^b,c   Liu, Jin ^b   Sandmann, Gerhard ^d   Chen, Feng ^e  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carotene hydroxylase; carotene ketolase; Astaxanthin; Tomato

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION; HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS; HYDROXYLASES; TOMATO; TOTAL CAROTENOIDS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CROPS; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUITS; HEALTH RISKS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

PIGMENTS;

ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE HYDROXYLASE; CAROTENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRUIT; HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOMATO; UPREGULATION;

ALGAL PROTEINS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; OXYGENASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; XANTHOPHYLLS;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMATOCOCCUS PLUVIALIS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84876399338     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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