Carotenoid Metabolism in Plants: The Role of Plastids

Molecular Plant

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 58-74

  Sun, Tianhu ^a   Yuan, Hui ^a   Cao, Hongbo ^a,b   Yazdani, Mohammad ^a   Tadmor, Yaakov ^c   Li, Li ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

carotenoid; metabolic engineering; metabolism; plastid; regulation

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID;

CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLASTID; PROCEDURES;

CAROTENOIDS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLASTIDS;

EID: 85033728307     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.09.010     Document Type: Review

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