Red Anthocyanins and Yellow Carotenoids Form the Color of Orange-Flower Gentian (Gentiana lutea L. var. aurantiaca)

Judit Berman; Yanmin Sheng; Lourdes Gómez Gómez; Tania Veiga; Xiuzhen Ni; Gemma Farré; Teresa Capell; Javier Guitián; Pablo Guitián; Gerhard Sandmann; Paul Christou; Changfu Zhu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162410

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Red Anthocyanins and Yellow Carotenoids Form the Color of Orange-Flower Gentian (Gentiana lutea L. var. aurantiaca)

Judit Berman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Judit Berman, Yanmin Sheng

Affiliation Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
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Yanmin Sheng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Judit Berman, Yanmin Sheng

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, China
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Lourdes Gómez Gómez,

Affiliation Instituto Botánico, Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología Agroforestal y Genética, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain
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Tania Veiga,

Affiliation Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Xiuzhen Ni,

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, China
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Gemma Farré,

Affiliation Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
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Teresa Capell,

Affiliation Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain
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Javier Guitián,

Affiliation Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Pablo Guitián,

Affiliation Departamento de Botánica, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
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Gerhard Sandmann,

Affiliation Biosynthesis Group, Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
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Paul Christou,

Affiliations Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain, ICREA, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
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Changfu Zhu

* E-mail: zhu@pvcf.udl.cat

Affiliations Departament de Producció Vegetal i Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida-Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain, School of Life Sciences, Changchun Normal University, Changchun, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2834-2742

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Red Anthocyanins and Yellow Carotenoids Form the Color of Orange-Flower Gentian (Gentiana lutea L. var. aurantiaca)

Judit Berman,
Yanmin Sheng,
Lourdes Gómez Gómez,
Tania Veiga,
Xiuzhen Ni,
Gemma Farré,
Teresa Capell,
Javier Guitián,
Pablo Guitián,
Gerhard Sandmann

Published: September 2, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162410

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