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- Samir Bekaert (UGent) , Serguei Storojenko (UGent) , Payam Mehrshah, Malcolm J Bennett, Willy Lambert (UGent) , Jesse F, III Gregory, Karel Schubert, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Dominique Van Der Straeten (UGent) and Andrew D Hanson
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- Folate deficiency is a global health problem affecting many people in the developing and developed world. Current interventions (industrial food fortification and supplementation by folic acid pills) are effective if they can be used but might not be possible in less developed countries. Recent advances demonstrate that folate biofortification of food crops is now a feasible complementary strategy to fight folate deficiency worldwide. The genes and enzymes of folate synthesis are sufficiently understood to enable metabolic engineering of the pathway, and results from pilot engineering studies in plants (and bacteria) are encouraging. Here, we review the current status of investigations in the field of folate enhancement on the eve of a new era in food fortification.
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- ONE-CARBON METABOLISM, NEURAL-TUBE DEFECTS, GAMMA-GLUTAMYL HYDROLASES, FOLIC-ACID INTAKE, UNITED-STATES, MICRONUTRIENT MALNUTRITION, PLASMA HOMOCYSTEINE, LACTOCOCCUS-LACTIS, GOLDEN RICE, FORTIFICATION
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-428235
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- Bekaert, Samir, et al. “Folate Biofortification in Food Plants.” TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE, vol. 13, no. 1, 2008, pp. 28–35, doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2007.11.001.
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- Bekaert, S., Storojenko, S., Mehrshah, P., Bennett, M. J., Lambert, W., Gregory, J. F., III, … Hanson, A. D. (2008). Folate biofortification in food plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 13(1), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2007.11.001
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- Bekaert, Samir, Serguei Storojenko, Payam Mehrshah, Malcolm J Bennett, Willy Lambert, Jesse F Gregory III, Karel Schubert, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Dominique Van Der Straeten, and Andrew D Hanson. 2008. “Folate Biofortification in Food Plants.” TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 13 (1): 28–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2007.11.001.
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- Bekaert, Samir, Serguei Storojenko, Payam Mehrshah, Malcolm J Bennett, Willy Lambert, Jesse F Gregory III, Karel Schubert, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Dominique Van Der Straeten, and Andrew D Hanson. 2008. “Folate Biofortification in Food Plants.” TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 13 (1): 28–35. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2007.11.001.
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- 1.Bekaert S, Storojenko S, Mehrshah P, Bennett MJ, Lambert W, Gregory JF III, et al. Folate biofortification in food plants. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 2008;13(1):28–35.
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- [1]S. Bekaert et al., “Folate biofortification in food plants,” TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 28–35, 2008.
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