Metabolic engineering of potato carotenoid content through tuber-specific overexpression of a bacterial mini-pathway

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 carotenoids.We tra...

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Main Authors: Diretto, Gianfranco, Al-Babili, Salim, Tavazza, Raffaela, Papacchioli, Velia, Beyer, Peter, Giuliano, Giovanni
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Public Library of Science 2007
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171920

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