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Sensory analysis of calcium-biofortified lettuce.
Plant biotechnology journal - 1 Jan 2009
Park Sunghun, Elless Mark P, Park Jungeun, Jenkins Alicia, Lim Wansang, Chambers Edgar, Hirschi Kendal D
Abstract excerpt
Vegetables represent an attractive means of providing increased calcium nutrition to the public. In this study, it was demonstrated that lettuce expressing the deregulated Arabidopsis H(+)/Ca(2+) transporter sCAX1 (cation exchanger 1) contained 25%-32% more calcium than controls. These biofortifi...
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