摘要
With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the research group directed by Professor Liu YaoGuang(刘耀光)at the State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources,College of Life Sciences,South China Agricultural University,recently reported the de novo biosynthesis of astaxanthin in rice endosperm in Molecular Plant (Zhu et al.,2018, https.//doi,org/10.1016/j.molp.2018.09.007).