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To improve the nutritional quality of legume seed flour, the gene for the methionine-rich 2S-albumin of Brazil nuts, under the control of the LeB4 legumin promoter from Vicia faba, was transformed into Vicia narbonenesis. A significant increase in the methionine content of seed flour was observed.
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Waddell, D.R., Saalbach, I., Pickardt, T., Müntz, K. (1998). Transgenic Narbon Yean (Vicia narbonensis L.): a Grain Legume with Improved Nutritional Composition. In: Guéguen, J., Popineau, Y. (eds) Plant Proteins from European Crops. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03720-1_13
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