Carotenoid biosynthesis in flowering plants.

J Hirschberg

Journal: Current opinion in plant biology 2001;4(3):210-8

PMID: 11312131

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Abstract

The general scheme of carotenoid biosynthesis has been known for more than three decades. However, molecular description of the pathway in plants began only in the 1990s after the genes for the carotenogenic enzymes were cloned. Recent data on the biochemistry of carotenogenesis and its regulation in vivo present the possibility of genetically manipulating this pathway in crop plants.

Address: Department of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Life Science Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel. [email protected]

DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5266(00)00163-1

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MeSH Terms: Carotenoids, Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, Intramolecular Lyases, Organelles, Phylogeny, Plants, Plants, Genetically Modified, Signal Transduction