Carotenoid biosynthetic and catabolic pathways: Gene expression and carotenoid content in grains of maize landraces

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 546-563

  Messias, Rafael da Silva ^a   Galli, Vanessa ^a,b   e Silva, Sérgio Delmar dos Anjos ^a   Rombaldi, Cesar Valmor ^c  

^a EMBRAPA CLIMA TEMPERADO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases; Carotenoid related genes; Carotenoids; Landrace varieties; Zea mays L.

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; BETA CAROTENE; BETA CRYPTOXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; CRYPTOXANTHIN; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ARTICLE; CAROTENOID DIOXYGENASE GENE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHROME P450 TYPE MONOOXYGENASE GENE; FERREDOXIN-DEPENDENT DI IRON MONOOXYGENASE GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAIN; LANDRACE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYTHOENE SYNTHASE GENE; POLLINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; LUTEIN; PLANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84893314382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6020546     Document Type: Article

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