Stepwise engineering to produce high yields of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in plants

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1013-1017

  Wu, Guohai ^a   Truksa, Martin ^a   Datla, Nagamani ^a   Vrinten, Patricia ^a   Bauer, Joerg ^b   Zank, Thorsten ^c   Cirpus, Petra ^b   Heinz, Ernst ^c   Qiu, Xiao ^a  

^a Bioriginal Food and Science Corporation   (Canada)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENES; HEALTH; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

ARACHIDONIC ACID (AA); BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID (EPA); TRANSGENIC PRODUCTION;

FATTY ACIDS;

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VERY LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; BRASSICA JUNCEA; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSTARD PLANT; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEEDS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; GENES; HEALTH; PLANTS; SEEDS;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA JUNCEA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 23444444336     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1107     Document Type: Article

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