Enhancing pterin and para-aminobenzoate content is not sufficient to successfully biofortify potato tubers and Arabidopsis thaliana plants with folate

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3899-3909

  Blancquaert, Dieter ^a   Storozhenko, Sergei ^a   Van Daele, Jeroen ^a   Stove, Christophe ^a   Visser, Richard G F ^b   Lambert, Willy ^a   Van Der Straeten, Dominique ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; biofortification; folate; folic acid; metabolic engineering; para aminobenzoate; potato; pterin; tuber

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; AMINODEOXYCHORISMATE SYNTHASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLIC ACID; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; PTERIN; PTERIN DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOFORTIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PARA-AMINOBENZOATE; POTATO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; TUBER.;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BIOFORTIFICATION; FOLATE; FOLIC ACID; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PARA-AMINOBENZOATE; POTATO; PTERIN; TUBER.;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FOLIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; PARA-AMINOBENZOATES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PTERINS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSAMINASES;

EID: 84883224128     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert224     Document Type: Article

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