Engineering the lutein epoxide cycle into Arabidopsis thaliana

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 33, 2017, Pages E7002-E7008

  Leonelli, Lauriebeth ^a,b,d   Brooks, Matthew D ^a,b,c,d   Niyogi, Krishna K ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lutein; Lutein epoxide; Nonphotochemical quenching; Photoprotection; Xanthophyll cycle

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; EPOXIDE; LUTEIN EPOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIOLAXANTHIN; XANTHOPHYLL; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; VIOLAXANTHIN DE-EPOXIDASE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; EPOXIDATION; LIGHT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XANTHOPHYLL CYCLE; ARABIDOPSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; EPOXY COMPOUNDS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LUTEIN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 85027415230     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1704373114     Document Type: Article

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