Article
Genetic transformation of astaxanthin mutants of Phaffia rhodozyma.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 1 Feb 1998
Martínez C, Hermosilla G, León R, Pincheira G, Cifuentes V
Abstract excerpt
Stable red astaxanthin-producing transformants were obtained after genetic transformation of two Phaffia rhodozyma mutants. A yellow mutant, accumulating beta-carotene, and an albino mutant, accumulating phytoene, from P. rhodozyma were transformed using a genomic library of wild-type strain UCD...
Topics
- Basidiomycota
- Blotting, Southern
- Carotenoids
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- DNA, Fungal
- Mutation
- Plasmids
- Restriction Mapping
- Transformation, Genetic
- Xanthophylls
- beta Carotene