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Metabolite sorting of a germplasm collection reveals the hydroxylase3 locus as a new target for maize provitamin A biofortification.
Plant physiology - 1 Nov 2009
Vallabhaneni Ratnakar, Gallagher Cynthia E, Licciardello Nicholas, Cuttriss Abby J, Quinlan Rena F, Wurtzel Eleanore T
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Vitamin A deficiency, a global health burden, can be alleviated through provitamin A carotenoid biofortification of major crop staples such as maize (Zea mays) and other grasses in the Poaceae. If regulation of carotenoid biosynthesis was better understood, enhancement could be controlled by limi...
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