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Tanzania: 2.7% of GDP lost due to micronutrient deficiencies

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RT @ThousandDays: Tanzania loses 2.7% of GDP due to micronutrient deficiencies! #Nutrition is an economic issue too!
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Retrotransposons Control Fruit-Specific, Cold-Dependent Accumulation of Anthocyanins in Blood Oranges

Traditionally, Sicilian blood oranges (Citrus sinensis) have been associated with cardiovascular health, and consumption has been shown to prevent obesity in mice fed a high-fat diet. Despite increasing consumer interest in these health-promoting attributes, production of blood oranges remains unreliable due largely to a dependency on cold for full color formation. We show that Sicilian blood orange arose by insertion of a Copia-like retrotransposon adjacent to a gene encoding Ruby, a MYB transcriptional activator of anthocyanin production.


Via John Innes Centre, Annals of Botany: Plant Science Research
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