A carotenogenic mini-pathway introduced into white corn does not affect development or agronomic performance

dc.contributor.authorZanga, Daniela
dc.contributor.authorCapell Capell, Teresa
dc.contributor.authorSlafer, Gustavo A.
dc.contributor.authorChristou, Paul
dc.contributor.authorSavin, Roxana
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-27T10:41:42Z
dc.date.available2017-01-27T10:41:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractHigh-carotenoid corn (Carolight®) has been developed as a vehicle to deliver pro-vitamin A in the diet and thus address vitamin A deficiency in at-risk populations in developing countries. Like any other novel crop, the performance of Carolight® must be tested in different environments to ensure that optimal yields and productivity are maintained, particularly in this case to ensure that the engineered metabolic pathway does not attract a yield penalty. Here we compared the performance of Carolight® with its near isogenic white corn inbred parental line under greenhouse and field conditions, and monitored the stability of the introduced trait. We found that Carolight® was indistinguishable from its near isogenic line in terms of agronomic performance, particularly grain yield and its main components. We also established experimentally that the functionality of the introduced trait was indistinguishable when plants were grown in a controlled environment or in the field. Such thorough characterization under different agronomic conditions is rarely performed even for first-generation traits such as herbicide tolerance and pest resistance, and certainly not for complex second-generation traits such as the metabolic remodeling in the Carolight® variety. Our results therefore indicate that Carolight® can now be incorporated into breeding lines to generate hybrids with locally adapted varieties for further product development and assessment.ca_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by Agrotecnio (Fundació Centre de Recerca en Agrotecnologia, VitaMaize 01 project) and Fundació la Caixa (Grant P13005).ca_ES
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/srep38288
dc.identifier.idgrec024970
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/59144
dc.language.isoengca_ES
dc.publisherNatureca_ES
dc.relation.isformatofReproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1038/srep38288ca_ES
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reports, 2016, vol. 6, núm. 38288, p. 1-12ca_ES
dc.rightscc-by (c) Zanga, Daniela. et al., 2016ca_ES
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessca_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectField trialsca_ES
dc.subjectPlant biotechnologyca_ES
dc.subjectPlant physiologyca_ES
dc.titleA carotenogenic mini-pathway introduced into white corn does not affect development or agronomic performanceca_ES
dc.typearticleca_ES
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionca_ES
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