Strategies to increase vitamin C in plants: From plant defense perspective to food biofortification

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Locato, Vittoria ^a   Cimini, Sara ^a   De Gara, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bio engineering; Crop; Food nutritional value; QTL analysis; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890319787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00152     Document Type: Review

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