Virtually complete conversion of lycopene into β-carotene in fruits of tomato plants transformed with the tomato lycopene β-cyclase (tlcy-b) cDNA

By C. D’Ambrosio, G. Giorio, Ivana Marino, A. Merendino, A. Petrozza, Leonarda Salfi, Adriana Lucia Stigliani, F. Cellini. 2004

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology

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• A global perspective on carotenoids: Metabolism, biotechnology, and benefits for nutrition and health. (2018, background): “Overexpression of a tomato LCYB gene resulted in high amounts of β-carotene (up to 205 μg/g FW) in the transgenic ripe fruits as a result of the almost complete cyclization of lycopene [258].”
• A golden era—pro-vitamin A enhancement in diverse crops (2011, background): “It would be necessary to consume 292 g of normal commercial tomato fruits, 82 g of the β-carotene-rich Beta mutant (Rosati et al. 2000), but only 53 g of HC tomato (D'Ambrosio et al. 2004) assuming a conversion factor of 12:1 (de Pee et al. 1998; Khan et al. 2007).”