Metabolic engineering of Arabidopsis to produce nutritionally important DHA in seed oil

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 473-479

  Robert, Stan S ^a   Singh, Surinder P ^a   Zhou, Xue Rong ^a   Petrie, James R ^a   Blackburn, Susan I ^a   Mansour, Peter M ^a   Nichols, Peter D ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Green, Allan G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desaturase; DHA; Elongase; EPA; Genetic engineering; Omega 3 fatty acid; Seed oil

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID (DHA); EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID (EPA); GENES ENCODING;

BIOSYNTHESIS; COENZYMES; FATTY ACIDS; GENES; METABOLISM; NUTRITION; OILS AND FATS; SEED;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

FATTY ACID;

BIOSYNTHESIS; FATTY ACIDS; GENES; METABOLISM; NUTRITION; OIL; PLANTS; SEEDS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 22344438841     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP05084     Document Type: Article

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