Secret of how plants regulate their vitamin C production revealed

12 marzo 2015

In the regulation of vitamin C, it is the level of vitamin C itself in each plant cell that decides whether RNA turns into the protein which makes vitamin C, researchers have found. «Understanding these mechanisms may help in plant breeding programs to produce hardier plant crops and improve human health because iron deficiency anemia is the most common form of malnutrition worldwide,» explains one expert.
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