Silencing of beta-carotene hydroxylase increases total carotenoid and beta-carotene levels in potato tubers
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- 2 March 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Plant Biology
- Vol. 7 (1) , 11
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-7-11
Abstract
Beta-carotene is the main dietary precursor of vitamin A. Potato tubers contain low levels of carotenoids, composed mainly of the xanthophylls lutein (in the beta-epsilon branch) and violaxanthin (in the beta-beta branch). None of these carotenoids have provitamin A activity. We have previously shown that tuber-specific silencing of the first step in the epsilon-beta branch, LCY-e, redirects metabolic flux towards beta-beta carotenoids, increases total carotenoids up to 2.5-fold and beta-carotene up to 14-fold.Keywords
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