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Levels of Lycopene β-Cyclase 1 Modulate Carotenoid Gene Expression and Accumulation in Daucus carota Moreno, Juan Camilo; Pizarro, Lorena; Fuentes, Paulina; Handford, Michael; Cifuentes Guzmán, Víctor; Stange Klein, Claudia (2013)Plant carotenoids are synthesized and accumulated in plastids through a highly regulated pathway. Lycopene β-cyclase (LCYB) is a key enzyme involved directly in the synthesis of α-carotene and β-carotene through the ...
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Fuentes, Paulina; Pizarro, Lorena; Moreno, Juan Camilo; Handford, Michael; Rodriguez-Concepcion, Manuel; Stange Klein, Claudia (2012)Carrot is an important nutritional crop due to the high levels of pro-vitamin A carotenoids (β-carotene and, to a lower extent, α-carotene) that accumulate in its storage root during secondary growth. In this work we show ...
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Simpson, Kevin; Fuentes, Paulina; Quiroz-Iturra, Luis Felipe; Flores-Ortiz, Carlos; Contreras, Rodrigo; Handford, Michael; Stange Klein, Claudia (Oxford University Press, 2018)© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Phytoene synthase (PSY) is the first committed enzyme of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway and the most important ...