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Carotenoid biosynthesis in flowering plants
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Abstract
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.