Editorial: Ascorbate metabolism in plants

Luis Miguel Morales Mazorra; Mara Menezes de Assis Gomes; José Hélio Costa; Ricardo Antônio Ayub; Jurandi Gonçalves de Oliveira

doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1208209

Editorial: Ascorbate metabolism in plants

Front Plant Sci. 2023 May 26:14:1208209. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1208209. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Luis Miguel Morales Mazorra¹, Mara Menezes de Assis Gomes², José Hélio Costa^{3

4}, Ricardo Antônio Ayub⁵, Jurandi Gonçalves de Oliveira²

Affiliations

¹ Plant Physiology Institute, National University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
² Laboratório de Melhoramento Genético Vegetal, Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Agropecuárias, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
⁴ Non-Institutional Competence Focus (NICFocus) 'Functional Cell Reprogramming and Organism Plasticity' (FunCROP), coordinated from Foros de Vale de Figueira, Alentejo, Portugal.
⁵ Laboratório de Biotecnologia Aplicada a Fruticultura, Departamento de Fitotecnia e Fitossanidade, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil.

No abstract available

Keywords: GDP-D-mannose pyrophosphorylase; ascorbic acid production; ascorbic acid synthesis; increasing ascorbic acid content in plants; l-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase.

Publication types

Editorial