METHOD FOR OBTAINING COMPOUNDS DERIVED FROM APOCAROTENOIDS IN MICROORGANISMS AND PLANTS FOR USE IN AGRICULTURAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS
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Method for obtaining compounds derived from apocarotenoids in microorganisms and plants for agricultural and pharmaceutical applications. The present invention relates to an enzymatic method for obtaining apocarotenoid derivatives, specifically crocetin and picrocrocin, which comprises a series of enzymatic reactions carried out by plant enzymes in a host system and other important crops.
The present invention relates to the field of agricultural biotechnology. In particular, the invention features polynucleotides from saffron plants that encode enzymes responsible for apocarotenoid synthesis, which can be used for manipulation of flavor, aroma and other features in plants and carotenoid accumulating bacteria or yeast cells, which do not contain this class of enzymes.



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