Increased flow of fatty acids toward β-oxidation in developing seeds of Arabidopsis deficient in diacylglycerol acyltransferase activity or synthesizing medium-chain-length fatty acids

Plant Physiology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1359-1366

  Poirier, Yves ^a   Ventre, Giovanni ^a   Caldelari, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYDECANOIC ACID; DECANOIC ACID; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMIC OXIDATION; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; MUTANT; PEROXISOME; PLASTID; POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE SYNTHASE; PROMOTER REGION; SEED DEVELOPMENT; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CUPHEA LANCEOLATA; LANCEOLATA;

EID: 0033371269     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.121.4.1359     Document Type: Article

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