What controls vitamin C levels in plants?
William Laing and Sean Bulley HortResearch scientists from New Zealand have identified the last remaining unknown enzyme in the major pathway of vitamin C biosynthesis in plants and have shown that this enzyme controls the level of vitamin C in leaves. In a near-simultaneous report, scientists from UCLA, working from a different approach based on their experience in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, have also reported the discovery of this enzyme. Both approaches relied on bioinformatic analysis of the predicted protein sequence of a previously identified gene that causes low vitamin C in a mutant of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Complete article: pdf: http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2007/artspdf/oct0703.pdf web: http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2007/news07.oct.htm#oct0703 RISK ASSESSMENT Crop-to-crop gene flow studies of fodder maize in the United Kingdom P. Janaki Krishna Various farm scale evaluations of GE corn have been conducted in the EU since 2000 in order to assess the ef
