Metabolic Engineering of Potato Carotenoid Content through Tuber-Specific Overexpression of a Bacterial Mini-Pathway

Gianfranco Diretto; Salim Al-Babili; Raffaela Tavazza; Velia Papacchioli; Peter Beyer; Giovanni Giuliano

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000350

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Metabolic Engineering of Potato Carotenoid Content through Tuber-Specific Overexpression of a Bacterial Mini-Pathway

Gianfranco Diretto ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianfranco Diretto, Salim Al-Babili

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy
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Salim Al-Babili ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianfranco Diretto, Salim Al-Babili

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Raffaela Tavazza,

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy
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Velia Papacchioli,

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy
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Peter Beyer,

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Giovanni Giuliano

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: giuliano@casaccia.enea.it

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy
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Metabolic Engineering of Potato Carotenoid Content through Tuber-Specific Overexpression of a Bacterial Mini-Pathway

Gianfranco Diretto,
Salim Al-Babili,
Raffaela Tavazza,
Velia Papacchioli,
Peter Beyer,
Giovanni Giuliano

Published: April 4, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000350

About the Authors

Gianfranco Diretto

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianfranco Diretto, Salim Al-Babili

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy

Salim Al-Babili

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianfranco Diretto, Salim Al-Babili

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Raffaela Tavazza

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy

Velia Papacchioli

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy

Peter Beyer

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Giovanni Giuliano

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: giuliano@casaccia.enea.it

Affiliation Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (ENEA), Casaccia Research Center, Roma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG RT PB. Performed the experiments: GD RT VP SA. Analyzed the data: GG GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD RT SA. Wrote the paper: GG.

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