Enrichment of provitamin A content in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by introduction of the bacterial carotenoid biosynthetic genes CrtB and CrtI

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2545-2556

  Wang, Cheng ^a   Zeng, Jian ^a   Li, Yin ^a,b   Hu, Wei ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Miao, Yingjie ^a   Deng, Pengyi ^a   Yuan, Cuihong ^a   Ma, Cheng ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Zang, Mingli ^a   Wang, Qiong ^a   Li, Kexiu ^a   Chang, Junli ^a   Wang, Yuesheng ^a   Yang, Guangxiao ^a   He, Guangyuan ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial phytoene desaturase (CrtI); Bacterial phytoene synthase (CrtB); carotenoid hydroxylase (HYD); lycopene cyclase (LCYB); particle bombardment; provitamin A; transgenic wheat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA-CAROTENE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; CRYPTOXANTHIN; RETINOL;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; ERWINIA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WHEAT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA CAROTENE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; CRYPTOXANTHINS; ERWINIA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; TRITICUM; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84901388882     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru138     Document Type: Article

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