The Arabidopsis ORANGE (AtOR) gene promotes carotenoid accumulation in transgenic corn hybrids derived from parental lines with limited carotenoid pools

Plant Cell Reports

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 933-945

  Berman, Judit ^a   Zorrilla López, Uxue ^a   Medina, Vicente ^a   Farré, Gemma ^a   Sandmann, Gerhard ^b   Capell, Teresa ^a   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

Carotenoids; Corn; Hybrids; Orange gene; Plastoglobuli; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PLANT PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAROTENOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85015633088     PISSN: 07217714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-017-2126-z     Document Type: Article

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