Throughout evolution, a number of animals including humans have lost the ability to
synthesize ascorbic acid (ascorbate, vitamin C), an essential molecule in the physiology of …

Abstract l-Ascorbic acid (Asc) is the most abundant water-soluble antioxidant in plants. It
serves as a cofactor for enzymes involved in photosynthesis, hormone biosynthesis, and the …

Plant‐derived Vitamin C (l‐ascorbic acid (AsA)) is crucial for human health and wellbeing
and thus increasing AsA content is of interest to plant breeders. In plants GDP‐l‐galactose …

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) plays important roles as an anti-oxidant and in collagen synthesis.
These important roles, and the relatively large amounts of vitamin C required daily, likely …

Plants synthesize ascorbate from guanosine diphosphate (GDP)‐mannose via l‐galactose/l‐
gulose, although uronic acids have also been proposed as precursors. Genes encoding all …

l‐Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is as essential to plants as it is to animals. Ascorbic acid functions
as a major redox buffer and as a cofactor for enzymes involved in regulating photosynthesis …

It is increasingly evident that metabolites suffer various kinds of damage, that such damage
happens in all organisms and that cells have dedicated systems for damage repair and …

The life of any living organism can be defined as a hurdle due to different kind of stresses.
As with all living organisms, plants are exposed to various abiotic stresses, such as drought …

Ascorbate (vitamin C) is an essential antioxidant in fresh fruits and vegetables. To gain
insight into the regulation of ascorbate metabolism in plants, we studied mutant tomato …

The term vitamin describes a small group of organic compounds that are absolutely required
in the human diet. Although for the most part, dependency criteria are met in developed …