Fernández Moreno, Josefina Patricia; Tzfadia, Oren; Forment Millet, José Javier; Presa Castro, Silvia; Rogachev, Ilana; Meir, Sagit; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente; Aharoni, Aspah; Granell Richart, Antonio(American Society of Plant Biologists, 2016)
[EN] The identification and characterization of new tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) mutants affected in fruit pigmentation and nutritional content can provide valuable insights into the underlying biology, as well as a source ...
[EN] Higher dietary intakes of flavonoids may have a beneficial role in cardiovascular disease prevention. Additionally, supplementation of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) in vegan diets can reduce risks associated to ...
[EN] Crocins and picrocrocin are high-value hydrophilic pigments produced in saffron and used commercially in the food and pharmaceutical industries. These apocarotenoids are derived from the oxidative cleavage of zeaxanthin ...
[EN] Carotenoids are C40 isoprenoids with well-established roles in photosynthesis, pollination, photoprotection, and hormone biosynthesis. The enzymatic or ROS-induced cleavage of carotenoids generates a group of compounds ...
Picarella, Maurizio E.; Ruiu, Fabrizio; Selleri, Luigi; Presa Castro, Silvia; Mizzotti, Chiara; Masiero, Simona; Colombo, Lucia; Soressi, Gian Piero; Granell, Antonio; Mazzucato, Andrea(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-03-27)
[EN] Parthenocarpy allows fruit set independently of fertilization. In parthenocarpic-prone tomato genotypes, fruit set can be achieved under pollen-limiting environmental conditions and in sterile mutants. Parthenocarpy ...
Aliaga Franco, Norma; Zhang, Cunjin; Presa Castro, Silvia; Srivastava, Anjil K.; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO; ALABADÍ DIEGO, DAVID; Sadanandom, Ari; BLAZQUEZ RODRIGUEZ, MIGUEL ANGEL; Minguet, E.G.(Frontiers Media SA, 2019-09-18)
[EN] Efficient elimination of the editing machinery remains a challenge in plant biotechnology after genome editing to minimize the probability of off-target mutations, but it is also important to deliver end users with ...
[EN] Saffron spice owes its commercial appreciation to its specific apocarotenoids: crocins, picrocrocin, and safranal. In Crocus sativus, these compounds are biosynthesized from zeaxanthin through oxidative cleavage by ...
[EN] The stigmas of Crocus sativus accumulate the exclusive apocarotenoids crocin and picrocrocin, which are dried and desiccated to make commercial saffron. In addition to providing characteristic organoleptic qualities, ...
[EN] Edible fruits are inexpensive biofactories for human health-promoting molecules that can be ingested as crude extracts or partially purified formulations. We show here the production of a model human antibody for ...
Fernández Del Carmen, María Asunción; Juárez Ortega, Paloma; Presa Castro, Silvia; Granell Richart, Antonio; Orzáez Calatayud, Diego Vicente(Elsevier, 2013-02-20)
The plant kingdom is an underexplored source of valuable proteins which, like plant lectins, display unique interacting specificities. Furthermore, plant protein diversity remains under-exploited due to the low availability ...
[EN] Virus-induced genome editing (VIGE) leverages viral vectors to deliver CRISPR-Cas components into plants for robust and flexible trait engineering. We describe here a VIGE approach applying an RNA viral vector based ...