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• Transgenic multivitamin corn through biofortification of endosperm with three vitamins representing three distinct metabolic pathways 

  Naqvi, Shaista; Zhu, Changfu; Farré Martinez, Gemma; Ramessar, Koreen; Bassie Rene, Ludovic; Breitenbach, Jürgen; Pérez Conesa, Darío; Ros, Gaspar; Sandmann, Gerhard; Capell Capell, Teresa; Christou, Paul (National Academy of Sciences, 2009)

  Vitamin deficiency affects up to 50% of the world’s population, disproportionately impacting on developing countries where populations endure monotonous, cereal-rich diets. Transgenic plants offer an effective way to ...

• Transgenic rice grains expressing a heterologous ρ-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase shift tocopherol synthesis from the c to the a isoform without increasing absolute tocopherol levels 

  Farré Martinez, Gemma; Sudhakar, Duraialagaraja; Naqvi, Shaista; Sandmann, Gerhard; Christou, Paul; Capell Capell, Teresa; Zhu, Changfu (Springer Verlag, 2012)

  We generated transgenic rice plants overexpressing Arabidopsis thaliana q-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD), which catalyzes the first committed step in vitamin E biosynthesis. Transgenic grains accumulated ...

• Synergistic metabolism in hybrid corn indicates bottlenecks in the carotenoid pathway and leads to the accumulation of extraordinary levels of the nutritionally important carotenoid zeaxanthin 

  Naqvi, Shaista; Zhu, Changfu; Farré Martinez, Gemma; Sandmann, Gerhard; Capell Capell, Teresa; Christou, Paul (Wiley, 2011)

  Lutein and zeaxanthin cannot be synthesized de novo in humans, and althoughlutein is abundant in fruit and vegetables, good dietary sources of zeaxanthin arescarce. Certain corn varieties provide adequate amounts because ...