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L-Gulono-1,4-lactone oxidase expression rescues vitamin C-deficient Arabidopsis (vtc) mutants.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Dec 2003
Radzio Jessica A, Lorence Argelia, Chevone Boris I, Nessler Craig L
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Vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) has important antioxidant and metabolic functions in both plants and animals, humans have lost the ability to synthesize it. Fresh produce is the major source of vitamin C in the human diet yet only limited information is available concerning its route(s) of synthesis in plants. In contrast, the animal vitamin C biosynthetic pathway has been elucidated since the 1960s. Two biosynthetic...
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