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Ketocarotenoid Production in Soybean Seeds through Metabolic Engineering

The pink or red ketocarotenoids, canthaxanthin and astaxanthin, are used as feed additives in the poultry and aquaculture industries as a source of egg yolk and flesh pigmentation, as farmed animals do not have access to the carotenoid sources of their wild counterparts. Because soybean is already a...

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Autores principales: Pierce, Emily C., LaFayette, Peter R., Ortega, María A., Joyce, Blake L., Kopsell, Dean A., Parrott, Wayne A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26376481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138196