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Maize Provitamin A Carotenoids, Current Resources, and Future Metabolic Engineering Challenges

Vitamin A deficiency is a serious global health problem that can be alleviated by improved nutrition. Development of cereal crops with increased provitamin A carotenoids can provide a sustainable solution to eliminating vitamin A deficiency worldwide. Maize is a model for cereals and a major staple...

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Autores principales: Wurtzel, Eleanore T., Cuttriss, Abby, Vallabhaneni, Ratnakar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22645578
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2012.00029