Reconstruction of the astaxanthin biosynthesis pathway in rice endosperm reveals a metabolic bottleneck at the level of endogenous β-carotene hydroxylase activity

Transgenic Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 13-23

  Bai, Chao ^a   Berman, Judit ^a   Farre, Gemma ^a   Capell, Teresa ^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

Astaxanthin; Carotenoids; Ketocarotenoids; Multigene transformation; Rice (Oryza sativa L.); carotene ketolase

Indexed keywords

ASTAXANTHIN; BETA CAROTENE; BETA-CAROTENE HYDROXYLASE; BETA-CAROTENE KETOLASE; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXYGENASE; PHYTOENE DEHYDROGENASE; PHYTOENE SYNTHASE; XANTHOPHYLL;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENDOSPERM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PROCEDURES; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BETA CAROTENE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENDOSPERM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GERANYLGERANYL-DIPHOSPHATE GERANYLGERANYLTRANSFERASE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; ORYZA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXYGENASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; XANTHOPHYLLS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84983806145     PISSN: 09628819     EISSN: 15739368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11248-016-9977-x     Document Type: Article

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