A foundation for provitamin A biofortification of maize: genome-wide association and genomic prediction models of carotenoid levels. [PDF]
, 2014 Efforts are underway for development of crops with improved levels of provitamin A carotenoids to help combat dietary vitamin A deficiency. As a global staple crop with considerable variation in kernel carotenoid composition, maize (Zea mays L.) could ...
Buckler, Edward S +13 more
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AntioxidantsPhytoene is a colourless carotenoid widely available from dietary sources and a precursor for the synthesis of other carotenoids. Although present at high concentrations across different tissues, phytoene is largely viewed as not having physiological ...
Ángeles Morón-Ortiz +4 more
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Plant-type phytoene desaturase: Functional evaluation of structural implications. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Phytoene desaturase (PDS) is an essential plant carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme and a prominent target of certain inhibitors, such as norflurazon, acting as bleaching herbicides.
Julian Koschmieder +6 more
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A universal primer for isolation of fragments of a gene encoding phytoene desaturase for use in virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) studies [PDF]
, 2010 We have been using Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) to test the function of genes that are candidates for involvement in floral senescence. Although VIGS is a powerful tool for assaying the effects of gene silencing in plants, relatively few taxa have
Cai-Zhong, J. +4 more
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Plants, 2023 Background: Carotenoids, which are secondary metabolites derived from isoprenoids, play a crucial role in photo-protection and photosynthesis, and act as precursors for abscisic acid, a hormone that plays a significant role in plant abiotic stress ...
Orlando Acevedo +2 more
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Mutant-based model of two independent pathways for carotenoid-mediated chloroplast biogenesis in Arabidopsis embryos [PDF]
, 2019 Chloroplasts are essential for autonomous plant growth, and their biogenesis is a complex process requiring both plastid and nuclear genome. One of the essential factors required for chloroplast biogenesis are carotenoids.
Colinas Martinez, Maite +3 more
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Regulation of tomato fruit ripening [PDF]
, 2009 Fruit ripening is a sophisticatedly orchestrated developmental process, unique to plants, that results in major physiological and metabolic changes, ultimately leading to fruit decay and seed dispersal.
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The stereospecific biosynthesis of phytoene and polyunsaturated carotenes [PDF]
Biochemical Journal, 1967 1. The incorporation of [2-(14)C,(5R)-5-(3)H(1)]mevalonic acid and [2-(14)C,5-(3)H(2)]-mevalonic acid into phytoene, phytofluene, zeta-carotene, neurosporene, alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-carotene and lycopene by slices of fruit from two tomato mutants (delta and tangerine) and into alpha- and beta-carotene by bean leaves has been studied. 2. In the
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A common phytoene synthase mutation underlies white petal varieties of the California poppy. [PDF]
, 2019 The California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is renowned for its brilliant golden-orange flowers, though white petal variants have been described.
Gong, Xue +2 more
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Kinetics of lycopene degradation in sunflower and grape seed oils [PDF]
, 2018 The stability of lycopene in two vegetable oils, sunflower seed oil (SSO) and grape seed oil (GSO), was investigated by analyzing the carotenoid degradation kinetics in the temperature range of 10–40°C.
González, Erenio +3 more
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