Supply of fatty acid is one limiting factor in the accumulation of triacylglycerol in developing embryos

Plant Physiology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1057-1062

  Bao, Xiaoming ^a   Ohlrogge, John ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BIOACCUMULATION; DECANOIC ACID; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GLYCEROL; GLYCEROPHOSPHATE; PLANT EMBRYOGENESIS; PLASTID; SUCROSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

CUPHEA; CUPHEA LANCEOLATA; LANCEOLATA; ULMUS; ULMUS CARPINIFOLIA; ULMUS PARVIFOLIA; ULMUS PROCERA;

EID: 0032883909     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.120.4.1057     Document Type: Article

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