funded by grants from the Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033;European ERDF/FEDER,NextGeneration EU/PRTR and PRIMA programs(PID2020-115810GB-I00;UToPIQ-PCI2021-121941 to M.R.-C.and BFU2016-78232-P to A.V.-C.).M.R.-C.is also supported by CSIC(202040E299);Generalitat Valenciana(PROMETEU/2021/056).R.K.and E.E.K.B.conducted the metabolite analysis at the Joint BioEnergy Institute(http://www.jbei.org),supported by the US Department of Energy,Office of Science,Office of Biological and Environmental Research under contract DE-AC02-05CH11231 between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the US Department of Energy.J.P.-G;was supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the EC-FP7 Program(project 627639);X.D.was supported by the China Scholarship Council and D.O.-A.by an MCIN/AEI/fellowship(BES-2017-080739).
Isoprenoids are a very large and diverse family of metabolites required by all living organisms.All isoprenoids derive fromthe double-bond isomers isopentenyl diphosphate(IPP)and dimethylallyl diphosphate(DMAPP),which...
supported by grants from the Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033;European NextGeneration EU/PRTR and PRIMA programs to M.R.-C.(PID2020-115810GB-I00 and UToPIQ-PCI2021-121941);supported by CSIC(202040E299);Generalitat Valenciana(PROMETEU/2021/056);funded by a PhD fellowship from“la Caixa”Foundation(INPhINIT program LCF/BQ/IN18/11660004);an EMBO short-term fellowship(ASTF 8907)for a short stay at the University of Neuchatel(Switzerland).
Plant carotenoids are plastidial isoprenoids that function as photoprotectants,pigments,and precursors of apocarotenoids such as the hormones abscisic acid and strigolactones.Humans do not produce carotenoids but need...