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Association Mapping of Total Carotenoids in Diverse Soybean Genotypes Based on Leaf Extracts and High-Throughput Canopy Spectral Reflectance Measurements.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Dhanapal Arun Prabhu, Ray Jeffery D, Singh Shardendu K, Hoyos-Villegas Valerio, Smith James R, Purcell Larry C, King C Andy, Fritschi Felix B
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Carotenoids are organic pigments that are produced predominantly by photosynthetic organisms and provide antioxidant activity to a wide variety of plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi. The carotenoid biosynthetic pathway is highly conserved in plants and occurs mostly in chromoplasts and chloroplasts. Leaf carotenoids play important photoprotective roles and targeted selection for leaf carotenoids may offer...
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