Search Results - "Gehan, Jackson"
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Biofortification of field-grown cassava by engineering expression of an iron transporter and ferritin
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-02-2019)“…Less than 10% of the estimated average requirement (EAR) for iron and zinc is provided by consumption of storage roots of the staple crop cassava ( Manihot…”
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Daylength and circadian effects on starch degradation and maltose metabolism
Published in Plant physiology (Bethesda) (01-08-2005)“…Transitory starch is stored during the day inside chloroplasts and broken down at night for export. Maltose is the primary form of carbon export from…”
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Provitamin A biofortification of cassava enhances shelf life but reduces dry matter content of storage roots due to altered carbon partitioning into starch
Published in Plant biotechnology journal (01-06-2018)“…Summary Storage roots of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), a major subsistence crop of sub‐Saharan Africa, are calorie rich but deficient in essential…”
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Mutations in DNA polymerase δ subunit 1 co-segregate with CMD2-type resistance to Cassava Mosaic Geminiviruses
Published in Nature communications (07-07-2022)“…Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) suppresses cassava yields across the tropics. The dominant CMD2 locus confers resistance to cassava mosaic geminiviruses. It has…”
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Author Correction: Biofortification of field-grown cassava by engineering expression of an iron transporter and ferritin
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-03-2019)“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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Design of substrate label for steady state flux measurements in plant systems using the metabolic network of Brassica napus embryos
Published in Phytochemistry (Oxford) (01-08-2007)“…Rapeseed embryos are a model system for studying plant metabolism. In steady state 13C-feeding experiments, metabolic fluxes are determined using measurements…”
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Daylength and Circadian Effects on Starch Degradation and Maltose Metabolism1
Published in Plant physiology (Bethesda) (01-08-2005)“…Transitory starch is stored during the day inside chloroplasts and broken down at night for export. Maltose is the primary form of carbon export from…”
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Cassava shrunken-2 homolog MeAPL3 determines storage root starch and dry matter content and modulates storage root postharvest physiological deterioration
Published in Plant molecular biology (01-06-2022)“…Key message Among the five cassava isoforms ( MeAPL1 – MeAPL5 ), MeAPL3 is responsible for determining storage root starch content. Degree of storage root…”
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A thioacidolysis method tailored for higher-throughput quantitative analysis of lignin monomers
Published in Biotechnology journal (01-10-2016)“…Thioacidolysis is a method used to measure the relative content of lignin monomers bound by β‐O‐4 linkages. Current thioacidolysis methods are low‐throughput…”
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