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KMID : 0368420210640050447
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Journal of Plant Biology
2021 Volume.64 No. 5 p.447 ~ p.459
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Fruit-Specific Expression of crtB, HpBHY, CrBKT and SlLCYB in a Special Tomato Landrace Triggers Hyper Production of Carotenoids in the Fruit
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Lin Yuanyuan
He Mingxia
Wang Jielin
Huang Junchao
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Abstract
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Tomato is a major source of dietary carotenoids that play an important role in human health. Improving the carotenoid profiles of tomato fruit has become a primary aspect in tomato breeding. The tomato ‘Huang Song’ landrace grows vigorously but with low contents of carotenoids in this yellowish fruit. To overcome this problem and extend lycopene to high-value astaxanthin, we co-expressed four genes encoding for phytoene synthase (crtB), β-carotene hydroxylase (BHY), β-carotene ketolase (BKT), and lycopene β-cyclase (LCYB), respectively, in the fruit of the landrace via linking the genes with 2A-sequences and driving their expression with the E8 promoter. The transgenic lines showed similar phenotypes to WT except for the fruit colors. The transgenic fruit exhibited deep red color due to the accumulation of novel ketocarotenoids including astaxanthin, canthaxanthin, and ketolutein and enhanced production of native carotenoids which were 20?~?44-fold of the control. The T0, T1, and T2 plants exhibited similar growing status and carotenoid profiles, indicating that the transformants were genetically stable. The transgenes resulted in upregulation of most of the endogenous carotenogenic genes in fruit at mature green stage and more plastoglobules in chromoplast. This study provides insights into metabolic engineering of tomato for enhanced production of value-added carotenoids.
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KEYWORD
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Tomato, E8 promoter, Carotenoid, Lycopene, Astaxanthin
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