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. 2002 Feb;14(2):289-92.
doi: 10.1105/tpc.140210.

Tangerine dreams: cloning of carotenoid isomerase from Arabidopsis and tomato

Nancy A Eckardt  1
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Tangerine dreams: cloning of carotenoid isomerase from Arabidopsis and tomato

Nancy A Eckardt. Plant Cell. 2002 Feb.
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<b>Figure 1.</b>
Figure 1.
CRTISO Catalyzes the Formation of the Red Pigment trans-Lycopene from Poly-cis-Lycopene. The tangerine tomato (top left) and ccr2 mutant of Arabidopsis (top right) lack a functional CRTISO enzyme and accumulate the tangerine-orange pigment poly-cis-lycopene. PDS, phytoene desaturase; ZDS, ζ-carotene desaturase. (Figure courtesy of Hyoungshin Park).
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Figure 2.
crtISO Mutants of Arabidopsis and Tomato. Arabidopsis ccr2 mutant seedlings produce etioplasts (bottom right) that lack prolamellar bodies, the paracrystalline membrane lattice that is a defining characteristic of the wild-type etioplast (top left), and exhibit a carotenoid composition similar to the tangerine tomato (bottom left). (Figure courtesy of Joseph Hirschberg and Barry Pogson).
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