• Achiote (Bixa orellana L.) : a natural source of pigment and vitamin E 

      Raddatz-Mota, Denise; Pérez Flores, Laura J.; Carrari, Fernando; Mendoza Espinoza, José Alberto; Díaz de León-Sánchez, Fernando; Pinzón-López, Luis L.; Godoy-Hernández, Gregorio; Rivera Cabrera, Fernando (Springer, 2017-05)
      Commercialization of agricultural products, including seeds and its derived products, represents an important economic source for developing countries. Natural colorants obtained from the seeds of achiote plant (annatto) ...
    • Genetic dissection of vitamin E biosynthesis in tomato 

      Almeida de Souza, Juliana Beatriz; Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Asis, Ramón; Setta, Nathalia; Godoy, Fabiana de; Bermúdez, Luisa; Otaiza, Santiago N.; Silva, Junia V. Corrêa da; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Society for Experimental Biology, 2011-07)
      Vegetables are critical for human health as they are a source of multiple vitamins including vitamin E (VTE). In plants, the synthesis of VTE compounds, tocopherol and tocotrienol, derives from precursors of the shikimate ...
    • Natural occurring epialleles determine vitamin E accumulation in tomato fruits 

      Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Almeida de Souza, Juliana Beatriz; Asis, Ramón; Duffy, Tomas; Dominguez, Pia Guadalupe; Bermudez Salazar, Luisa; Conti, Gabriela; Silva, Junia V. Corrêa da; Peralta, Iris Edith; Colot, Vincent; Asurmendi, Sebastian; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Rossi, Magdalena; Carrari, Fernando Oscar (2014-07)
      Vitamin E (VTE) content is a low heritability nutritional trait for which the genetic determinants are poorly understood. Here, we focus on a previously detected major tomato VTE quantitative trait loci (QTL; mQTL9-2-6) ...
    • Transcriptional regulation of tocopherol biosynthesis in tomato 

      Quadrana, Leandro Daniel; Almeida de Souza, Juliana Beatriz; Otaiza, Santiago N.; Duffy, Tomas; Silva, Junia V. Corrêa da; Godoy, Fabiana de; Asís, Ramón; Bermúdez, Luisa; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Carrari, Fernando; Rossi, Magdalena (Springer, 2013-02)
      Tocopherols, compounds with vitamin E (VTE) activity, are potent lipid-soluble antioxidants synthesized only by photosynthetic organisms. Their biosynthesis requires the condensation of phytyl-diphosphate and homogentisate, ...