Carotenoid biosynthesis in flowering plants.
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.
Hirschberg
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Department of Genetics, The Alexander Silberman Life Science Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel. Joseph.Hirschberg@huji.ac.il
D002338:Carotenoids / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D019753:Intramolecular Lyases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015388:Organelles / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology
D002338:Carotenoids; D019753:Intramolecular Lyases; C070925:lycopene cyclase-isomerase