Targeted transcriptomic and metabolic profiling reveals temporal bottlenecks in the maize carotenoid pathway that may be addressed by multigene engineering

Plant Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 441-455

  Farré, Gemma ^a   Maiam Rivera, Sol ^a   Alves, Rui ^b   Vilaprinyo, Ester ^b   Sorribas, Albert ^b   Canela, Ramon ^a   Naqvi, Shaista ^a,e   Sandmann, Gerhard ^c   Capell, Teresa ^a   Zhu, Changfu ^a   Christou, Paul ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carotenoids; endosperm development; ketocarotenoids; metabolic engineering; metabolic profiling; transcriptomic analysis; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOIDS; ENDOSPERM DEVELOPMENT; KETOCAROTENOIDS; METABOLIC PROFILING; TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS; ZEA MAYS;

GENES; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); METABOLISM; PIGMENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

CAROTENOID; XANTHOPHYLL;

ARTICLE; ENDOSPERM; ENDOSPERM DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KETOCAROTENOIDS; MAIZE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC PROFILING; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METHODOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CAROTENOIDS; ENDOSPERM DEVELOPMENT; KETOCAROTENOIDS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC PROFILING; TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS; ZEA MAYS;

CAROTENOIDS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC ENGINEERING; METABOLOME; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84880776528     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12214     Document Type: Article

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