Metabolic engineering of carotenoids in transgenic sweetpotato

Breeding Science

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 27-34

  Kang, Le ^a,b   Park, Sung Chul ^a   Ji, Chang Yoon ^a,b   Kim, Ho Soo ^a   Lee, Haeng Soon ^a,b   Kwak, Sang Soo ^a,b  

^a Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB)   (South Korea)

^b University of Science and Technology (UST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Biosynthesis; Carotenoids; Catabolism; Orange gene; RNA interference; Sweetpotato

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017556955     PISSN: 13447610     EISSN: 13473735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.16118     Document Type: Review

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