俺在下麵的貼裏說:
• 水稻葉本身是合成胡蘿卜素的。黃金大米隻是激活了米胚中的胡蘿卜素合成。 - 26484915 - ♂ (688 bytes) (12 reads) 09/04/2014 11:11:27
俺想請教一下:哪裏理解不對?
Golden Rice technology is based on the simple principle that rice plants possess the whole machinery to synthesise β-carotene, and while this machinery is fully active in leaves, parts of it are turned off in the grain. By adding only two genes, a plant phytoene synthase (psy) and a bacterial phytoene desaturase (crt I), the pathway is turned back on and β-carotene consequently accumulates in the grain.
金稻米技術的產生基於一個簡單的原理,水稻隻能在綠葉組織中合成 β-胡蘿卜素,而在被食用的胚乳中 卻沒有,可是這個兩步的生物合成 途徑確實存在於糧食中。僅僅通過 轉入兩種酶的基因:八氫番茄紅素 合成酶(PSY)和八氫番茄紅素脫氫酶 (crt I),糧食中可以合成β-胡蘿卜素 的途徑就能被重新激活,β-胡蘿卜 素就能因此在被食用的胚乳中製造 並積累。
Fig 1: Pathway overview: carotenoid biosynthesis begins with a small (C5) compound, isopentenyl-diphosphate (IPP) and its isomer dimethylally-diphosphate (DMAPP). Chain elongation by C5 units leads to the formation of the C20-compound geranylgeranyl-diphosphate (GGPP). GGPP is a precursor that can enter several biosynthetic routes, as indicated. The head-to-head condensation of two GGPP molecules produces the first,colourless carotene, phytoene. A series of desaturation reactions lead to the coloured chromophore of lycopene, and subsequent cyclization reactions produce the β- and ε-ionone rings. Oxygenation (hydroxylation, epoxidation) reactions lead then to xanthophylls. Several known pathways branch off at this point, forming biologically important molecules, such as abscisic acid and strigolactones
(http://www.goldenrice.org/Content2-How/how1_sci.php)