Metabolic engineering of potato carotenoid content through tuber-specific overexpression of a bacterial mini-pathway.
<h4>Background</h4>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 extremel...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-04-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000350 |