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This project aims to reduce toxic compounds in potatoes by redesigning the metabolic pathway of glycoalkaloids using targeted gene knockouts. The goal is to develop new potato cultivars with lower levels of these harmful substances while maintaining other plant characteristics.
While great attention has been given to increase nutritional substances in food plants only limited efforts have been made for using biotechnology to reduce the level of endogenous, anti-nutritional factors (e.g. toxic compounds) in existing crops.
Anti-nutritional substances not only affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients, but can also be lethal to humans or feeding animals and are responsible for food spoilage.
Glycoalkaloids (GLAs) produced by crops of the Solanacea family, namely,…
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