Objective
Consumption of fruits and vegetables rich in health-promoting phytochemicals has been associated with the reduced incidence of age-related chronic disease states. Carotenoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, tocopherols (vitE) and vitamin C are all examples of he alth-promoting phytochemicals. Tomato fruit are one of the principal sources of carotenoids (e.g. lycopene and beta-carotene) in the western diet they also contain significant levels of other antioxidant compounds such as flavonoids and polyphenols. In the proposed project the biosynthetic pathways responsible for the formation of health-promoting phytonutrients in tomato will be studied at the gene, protein and metabolite level using modern omic technologies. A collection of transgenic plants and natural genotypes with altered fruit carotenoid levels will be use to elucidate regulatory mechanisms and pathway interactions.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture vegetable growing
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-5
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
TW20 0EX Egham
United Kingdom
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