Carotenoid Biosynthetic and Catabolic Pathways: Gene Expression and Carotenoid Content in Grains of Maize Landraces

Plant carotenoids have been implicated in preventing several age-related diseases, and they also provide vitamin A precursors; therefore, increasing the content of carotenoids in maize grains is of great interest. It is not well understood, however, how the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway is regulat...

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Autores principales: Messias, Rafael da Silva, Galli, Vanessa, Silva, Sérgio Delmar dos Anjos e, Rombaldi, Cesar Valmor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24476639
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6020546

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3942716/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24476639
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu6020546

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