New challenges for the design of high value plant products: stabilization of anthocyanins in plant vacuoles

In the last decade plant biotechnologists and breeders have made several attempt to improve the antioxidant content of plant-derived food. Most efforts concentrated on increasing the synthesis of antioxidants, in particular anthocyanins, by inducing the transcription of genes encoding the synthesizi...

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Main Authors: Valentina ePasseri, Ronald eKoes, Francesca Margherita Quattrocchio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.00153/full