Silencing of vacuolar invertase and asparagine synthetase genes and its impact on acrylamide formation of fried potato products.

ABSTRACT: Acrylamide is produced in a wide variety of carbohydrate-rich foods during high-temperature cooking. Dietary acrylamide is a suspected human carcinogen, and health concerns related to dietary acrylamide have been raised worldwide. French fries and potato chips contribute a significant proportion to the average daily intake of acrylamide, especially in developed countries. One way to mitigate health concerns related to acrylamide is to develop potato cultivars that have reduced contents of the acrylamide precursors asparagine, glucose and fructose in tubers. We generated a large number of silencing lines of potato cultivar Russet Burbank by targeting the vacuolar invertase gene VInv and the asparagine synthetase genes StAS1 and StAS2 with a single RNA interference construct. The transcripti

SUBMITTER: Zhu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388841 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature