Metabolic engineering of astaxanthin biosynthesis in maize endosperm and characterization of a prototype high oil hybrid

Transgenic Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 477-489

  Farré, Gemma ^a   Perez Fons, Laura ^b   Decourcelle, Mathilde ^c,d   Breitenbach, Jürgen ^e   Hem, Sonia ^c   Zhu, Changfu ^a   Capell, Teresa ^a   Christou, Paul ^a,f   Fraser, Paul D ^b   Sandmann, Gerhard ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INRA   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Astaxanthin; Genetically engineered carotenoid biosynthesis; GM maize; Metabolomics; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; CAROTENOID; PROTEOME; XANTHOPHYLL;

BIOSYNTHESIS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

CAROTENOIDS; ENDOSPERM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLOME; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEOME; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84959355460     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: 15739368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-016-9943-7     Document Type: Article

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