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by Tudor P Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

More vitamin C


News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030113-02     doi:10.1186/20030113-02

Published 13 January 2003

Vitamin C (L-Ascorbic acid) is an essential dietary nutrient found in fruits and vegetables: it has crucial antioxidant roles in the immune system and in the synthesis of collagen, carnitine, and neurotransmitters, but little has been known about vitamin C biosynthesis in plants. In the January 13 Nature Biotechnology, Fernanda Agius and colleagues at the Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain, show that GalUR, encoding a D-galacturonic acid reductase, controls vitamin C synthesis and can be use to increase vitamin C production in plants (Nature Biotechnology, doi:10.1038/nbt777, January 13, 2003).


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