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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Main Authors: Gianfranco Diretto, Salim Al-Babili, Raffaela Tavazza, Velia Papacchioli, Peter Beyer, Giovanni Giuliano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000350

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