[HTML][HTML] Vital roles of carotenoids in plants and humans to deteriorate stress with its structure, biosynthesis, metabolic engineering and functional aspects

P Swapnil, M Meena, SK Singh, UP Dhuldhaj… - Current Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carotenoids are long conjugated isoprenoid molecules with over 1117 identified structures,
belongs to the class of hydrocarbons, involved in a range of biological processes in plants …

Biofortified crops generated by breeding, agronomy, and transgenic approaches are improving lives of millions of people around the world

M Garg, N Sharma, S Sharma, P Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biofortification is an upcoming, promising, cost-effective, and sustainable technique of
delivering micronutrients to a population that has limited access to diverse diets and other …

Carotenoid metabolism in plants: the role of plastids

T Sun, H Yuan, H Cao, M Yazdani, Y Tadmor, L Li - Molecular plant, 2018 - cell.com
Carotenoids are indispensable to plants and critical in human diets. Plastids are the
organelles for carotenoid biosynthesis and storage in plant cells. They exist in various types …

Carotenoid metabolism in plants

N Nisar, L Li, S Lu, NC Khin, BJ Pogson - Molecular plant, 2015 - cell.com
Carotenoids are mostly C 40 terpenoids, a class of hydrocarbons that participate in various
biological processes in plants, such as photosynthesis, photomorphogenesis …

Advances in research on the carrot, an important root vegetable in the Apiaceae family

F Que, XL Hou, GL Wang, ZS Xu, GF Tan… - Horticulture …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Carrots (Daucus carota L.), among the most important root vegetables in the
Apiaceae family, are cultivated worldwide. The storage root is widely utilized due to its …

Carotenoid metabolism and regulation in horticultural crops

H Yuan, J Zhang, D Nageswaran, L Li - Horticulture research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Carotenoids are a diverse group of pigments widely distributed in nature. The vivid yellow,
orange, and red colors of many horticultural crops are attributed to the overaccumulation of …

Phytoene synthase: the key rate-limiting enzyme of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants

X Zhou, S Rao, E Wrightstone, T Sun… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Phytoene synthase (PSY) catalyzes the first committed step in the carotenoid biosynthesis
pathway and is a major rate-limiting enzyme of carotenogenesis. PSY is highly regulated by …

Biofortification of staple crops to alleviate human malnutrition: contributions and potential in developing countries

A Kiran, A Wakeel, K Mahmood, R Mubaraka, Hafsa… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Micronutrient malnutrition is a global health challenge affecting almost half of the global
population, causing poor physical and mental development of children and a wide range of …

Arabidopsis OR proteins are the major posttranscriptional regulators of phytoene synthase in controlling carotenoid biosynthesis

X Zhou, R Welsch, Y Yang, D Álvarez… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Carotenoids are indispensable natural pigments to plants and humans. Phytoene synthase
(PSY), the rate-limiting enzyme in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway, and ORANGE (OR) …

Progress update: crop development of biofortified staple food crops under HarvestPlus

MS Andersson, A Saltzman, PS Virk… - African Journal of Food …, 2017 - ajol.info
Over the past 15 years, biofortification, the process of breeding nutrients into food crops, has
gained ample recognition as a cost-effective, complementary, feasible means of delivering …