Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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Research Abstract |
Acerola(Malpighia glabra) is an exotic fruit cultivated primarily for its abundant ascorbate content, which is over 20-fold higher than ascorbate content in lemon. The molecular mechanisms that regulate the biosynthesis and accumulation of a large amount of ascorbic acid in acerola have been clarified in this study. Also, ascorbic acid biosynthesis-related genes from acerola have been manipulated to generate ascorbic acid-rich transgenic plants. The overexpression of acerola ascorbate biosynthetic enzyme genes resulted in two-to three-fold increase in the ascorbate content of the transgenic plants.
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