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Metabolic Engineering of Potato Carotenoid Content through Tuber-Specific Overexpression of a Bacterial Mini-Pathway

BACKGROUND: Since the creation of “Golden Rice”, biofortification of plant-derived foods is a promising strategy for the alleviation of nutritional deficiencies. Potato is the most important staple food for mankind after the cereals rice, wheat and maize, and is extremely poor in provitamin A carote...

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Autores principales: Diretto, Gianfranco, Al-Babili, Salim, Tavazza, Raffaela, Papacchioli, Velia, Beyer, Peter, Giuliano, Giovanni
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17406674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000350