Constitutive overexpression of barley 4‐hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase in tobacco results in elevation of the vitamin E content in seeds but not in leaves1
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- 11 March 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 540 (1-3) , 35-40
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00166-2
Abstract
With the aim to enhance the plant vitamin E content, the barley gene encoding 4‐hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase was overexpressed in tobacco plants under control of the 35S promoter. Transgenic lin...Keywords
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