Genetic dissection of vitamin E biosynthesis in tomato

JULIANA ALMEIDA; LEANDRO QUADRANA; RAMÓN ASIS; NATHALIA SETTA; FABIANA DE GODOY; LUISA BERMÚDEZ; SANTIAGO N. OTAIZA; JUNIA V. CORREA DA SILVA; ALISDAIR R. FERNIE; FERNANDO CARRARI; MAGDALENA ROSSI

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Año: 2011 vol. 62 p. 3781 - 3781

p style="" class="MsoBodyText">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 and methylerythritol phosphate pathways. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) for α-tocopherol content in ripe fruit have previously been determined in an S. pennellii tomato introgression line population. In this work, we studied variations of tocopherol isoforms (α, b, g and