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Biofortified β-carotene rice improves vitamin A intake and reduces the prevalence of inadequacy among women and young children in a simulated analysis in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines

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Golden bananas in the field: elevated fruit pro-vitamin A from the expression of a single banana transgene

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Elevated vitamin E content improves all-transβ-carotene accumulation and stability in biofortified sorghum

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Orange protein has a role in phytoene synthase stabilization in sweetpotato

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ArabidopsisOR proteins are the major posttranscriptional regulators of phytoene synthase in controlling carotenoid biosynthesis

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The genome sequence of Sea-Island cotton (Gossypium barbadense) provides insights into the allopolyploidization and development of superior spinnable fibres

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Bioavailability of iron, zinc, and provitamin A carotenoids in biofortified staple crops

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Precursor uptake assays and metabolic analyses in isolated tomato fruit chromoplasts

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Light-dependent changes in plastid differentiation influence carotenoid gene expression and accumulation in carrot roots

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Genetic Modification of the Soybean to Enhance the β-Carotene Content through Seed-Specific Expression

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The BioCassava Plus Program: Biofortification of Cassava for Sub-Saharan Africa

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Provitamin A Accumulation in Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Roots Driven by a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in a Phytoene Synthase Gene

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Direct regulation of phytoene synthase gene expression and carotenoid biosynthesis by phytochrome-interacting factors

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

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Seeing is believing: engineering anthocyanin and carotenoid biosynthetic pathways

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Natural Genetic Variation in Lycopene Epsilon Cyclase Tapped for Maize Biofortification

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