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Description
Our research aims to select chicory with the help of molecular markers, and to improve, by genetic engineering, its inulin production. Inulin is a polyfructan with high dietary and food value. Currently, chicories are transformed with chimeric constructs containing 1-SST or 1-FFT inulin synthesis genes by means of modified binary vector/Agrobacterium tumefaciens system. Studies and antisense inhibition of invertase activities would permit the control of fructan depolymerization during cold stress.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/94 → 31/03/01 |
Keywords
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens ¿ antisense ¿ 1-SST ¿ 1-FFT ¿ invertase ¿ cold stress
- Inulin
- Agrobacterium tumefaciens ? antisense ? 1-SST ? 1-FFT ? invertase ? cold stress
- chicory
- transgenese
- fructan
- overexpression
- binary vector
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