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Engineered oilseed crop produces high levels of powerful antioxidant
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Engineered oilseed crop produces high levels of powerful antioxidant

6.6.2025: In a major step forward for sustainable pigment production, scientists have successfully engineered the oilseed crop Camelina sativa to produce high levels of astaxanthin – a valuable red antioxidant used to color farmed salmon and shrimp – using plant-derived genes rather than bacterial pathways. The findings, from a joint US/UK research team of biotechnologists led by Prof. Edgar Cahoon, director of the Center for Plant Science Innovation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL),

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