Biosynthesis of very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic oilseeds: Constraints on their accumulation

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2734-2746

  Abbadi, Amine ^a   Domergue, Fréderic ^a   Bauer, Jörg ^b   Napier, Johnathan A ^c   Welti, Ruth ^d   Zähringer, Ulrich ^e   Cirpus, Petra ^b   Heinz, Ernst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA; LIPIDS; NUTRITION; SEED; TOBACCO;

CDNA ENCODING; HUMAN DIET; OILSEEDS; VERY-LONG-CHAIN POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID (VLCPUFA);

FATTY ACIDS;

ALCOHOLS; BIOSYNTHESIS; FATTY ACIDS; LIPIDS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUTRITION; SEEDS; TOBACCO;

LINUM USITATISSIMUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT SEED; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS; TOBACCO;

EID: 10044222083     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.026070     Document Type: Article

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