Benefiting others and self: Production of vitamins in plants |
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Authors: | Yufei Li Chenkun Yang Hasan Ahmad Mohamed Maher Chuanying Fang Jie Luo |
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Affiliation: | 1.National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong AgriculturalUniversity, Wuhan 430070, China;2.College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China;Correspondence: Jie Luo (jie.luo@hainanu.edu.cn) |
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Abstract: | Vitamins maintain growth and development in humans, animals, and plants. Because plants serve as essential producers of vitamins, increasing the vitamin contents in plants has become a goal of crop breeding worldwide. Here, we begin with a summary of the functions of vitamins. We then review the achievements to date in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying how vitamins are synthesized, transported, and regulated in plants. We also stress the exploration of variation in vitamins by the use of forward genetic approaches, such as quantitative trait locus mapping and genome‐wide association studies. Overall, we conclude that exploring the diversity of vitamins could provide new insights into plant metabolism and crop breeding. |
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Keywords: | crop breeding forward genetic plants vitamins |
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