This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme, is sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the carotenoid biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.
申请公布号
WO9955887(A2)
申请公布日期
1999.11.04
申请号
WO1999US08384
申请日期
1999.04.16
申请人
E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY;CAHOON, REBECCA, E.;KINNEY, ANTHONY, J.;PEARLSTEIN, RICHARD, W.;WILLIAMS, MARK, E.
发明人
CAHOON, REBECCA, E.;KINNEY, ANTHONY, J.;PEARLSTEIN, RICHARD, W.;WILLIAMS, MARK, E.