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Title:
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The regulation of carotenoid pigmentation in flowers
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Author:
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Zhu, Changfu; Bai, Chao; Sanahuja Solsona, Georgina; Yuan, Dawei; Farré Martinez, Gemma; Naqvi, Shaista; Shi, Lianxuan; Capell Capell, Teresa; Christou, Paul
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Carotenoids fulfill many processes that are essential for normal growth and development in plants, but they are also responsible for the breathtaking variety of red-to-yellow colors we see in flowers and fruits. Although such visual diversity helps to attract pollinators and encourages herbivores to distribute seeds, humans also benefit from the aesthetic properties of flowers and an entire floriculture industry has developed on the basis that new and attractive varieties can be produced. Over the last decade, much has been learned about the impact of carotenoid metabolism on flower color development and the molecular basis of flower color. A number of different regulatory mechanisms have been described ranging from the transcriptional regulation of genes involved in carotenoid synthesis to the control of carotenoid storage in sink organs. This means we can now explain many of the natural colorful varieties we see around us and also engineer plants to produce flowers with novel and exciting varieties that are not provided by nature.
This research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain (BFU2007-61413 and BIO2007-30738-E) and European Research Council Advanced Grant (BIOFORCE) to P.C., C.Z. and L.S. are supported in part by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30870222 and 30370123). S.N. and G.F. are supported by Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain) Ph.D. fellowships. C.B. is supported by a fellowship from the University of Lleida, Spain. |
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-Carotenoids
-Ketocarotenoids
-Regulation
-Gene expression |
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(c) Elsevier Inc, 2010
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Elsevier
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