Abstract
Great impetus to the investigation of carotenoid biosynthesis was given by the introduction of Porter and Lincoln (1950) of the hypothesis that coloured carotenoids were formed by the sequential dehydrogenation of the unsaturated polyenes detected in several tomato fruit lines. Since then the implications of these studies have led to a massive exploration which now allows to describe the different steps of the biosynthetic pathway. Several reviews (Porter and Spurgeon, 1979; Camara and Monéger, 1982; Porter and Spurgeon, 1983; Jones and Porter, 1986; Bramley and Mackenzie, 1988; Britton, 1988) present different pictures of our advances in this field, but they also inevitably point to persistent gaps in our understanding. A search of the literature leaves the impression that as far as the enzymology and the underlying basis of its control are concerned, little progress has been made there. The lag can be accounted for by the exceptionally great difficulties that such studies must face. In this chapter, we wish to consider some of the recent development in this area, focusing mainly on higher plants.
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Camara, B. et al. (1992). Carotenoid Biosynthesis and Regulation in Plants. In: Petroski, R.J., McCormick, S.P. (eds) Secondary-Metabolite Biosynthesis and Metabolism. Environmental Science Research, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3012-1_24
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