Carotenoids: resources, knowledge, and emerging tools to advance apocarotenoid research

J Beltrán, ET Wurtzel - Plant Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Carotenoids are a large class of isoprenoid compounds which are biosynthesized by plants,
algae, along with certain fungi, bacteria and insects. In plants, carotenoids provide crucial …

Carotenoid‐carbohydrate crosstalk: evidence for genetic and physiological interactions in storage tissues across crop species

SS Villwock, L Li, JL Jannink - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carotenoids play essential roles in photosynthesis, photoprotection, and human health.
Efforts to increase carotenoid content in several staple crops have been successful through …

Reducing PHYTOENE SYNTHASE activity fine-tunes the abundance of a cis-carotene-derived signal that regulates the PIF3/HY5 module and plastid biogenesis

X Hou, Y Alagoz, R Welsch, MD Mortimer… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract PHYTOENE SYNTHASE (PSY) is a rate-limiting enzyme catalysing the first
committed step of carotenoid biosynthesis, and changes in PSY gene expression and/or …

Apocarotenoid signals in plant development and beyond

RP McQuinn, MT Waters - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Carotenoids are much more than the familiar yellow-tored pigments that we find in fruits and
flowers. Arguably it is the products of carotenoid breakdown—the apocarotenoids—that are …

Reducing PSY activity fine tunes threshold levels of a cis-carotene-derived signal that regulates the PIF3/HY5 module and plastid biogenesis

X Hou, Y Alagoz, R Welsch, MD Mortimer, BJ Pogson… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT PHYTOENE SYNTHASE (PSY) is a rate-limiting enzyme catalysing the first
committed step of carotenoid biosynthesis, and changes in PSY gene expression and/or …