Bottlenecks in carotenoid biosynthesis and accumulation in rice endosperm are influenced by the precursor-product balance

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 195-205

  Bai, Chao ^a   Capell, Teresa ^a   Berman, Judit ^a   Medina, Vicente ^a   Sandmann, Gerhard ^b   Christou, Paul ^a,c   Zhu, Changfu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

1 deoxy d xylulose 5 phosphate synthase; Carotenoids; Multigene engineering; ORANGE gene; Rice (Oryza sativa); Secondary metabolites

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UPREGULATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CAROTENOIDS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; ORYZA; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84955197527     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12373     Document Type: Article

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