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Molecular Control of Floral Pigmentation: Carotenoids

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Breeding For Ornamentals: Classical and Molecular Approaches

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To attract pollinators, plants have evolved flowers of elaborate architecture, alluring fragrance, and captivating natural beauty Humans have selected and bred a great number of plants solely for the vibrant colors and distinctive patterns of pigmentation of their flowers. The yellow, orange and red colors displayed by many flowers, fruits, roots and other non-green plant tissues and organs quite often result from the synthesis and accumulation, in specialized plastids known as chromoplasts, of a class of isoprenoid compounds referred to as the carotenoids.

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