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Boosting carotenoid content in Malus domestica var. Fuji by expressing AtDXR through an Agrobacterium‐mediated transformation method
20 Apr 2020
Abstract excerpt
Apple (Malus domestica) fruits accumulate negligible levels of carotenoids, antioxidant pigments that are precursors for vitamin A in humans. As vitamin A deficiency is an important public health issue, we aimed at increasing carotenoids in apple by constitutively expressing the Arabidopsis thaliana DXR gene, one of the key regulatory steps in the plastidial isoprenoid pathway. For this purpose, we optimized an...
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