Development of high oleic and low linoleic acid transgenics in a zero erucic acid Brassica juncea L. (Indian mustard) line by antisense suppression of the fad2 gene

Molecular Breeding

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 365-375

  Sivaraman, Indira ^a   Arumugam, Neelakantan ^a   Sodhi, Yashpal Singh ^a   Gupta, Vibha ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Arundhati ^a   Pradhan, Akshay K ^a   Burma, Pradeep Kumar ^a   Pental, Deepak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Antisense RNA; Brassica juncea; fad2; Linoleic acid; Linolenic acid; Oleic acid

Indexed keywords

GENES; OILS AND FATS; OLEIC ACID; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

ANTISENSE; ANTISENSE RNA; BRASSICA JUNCEA; BRASSICA JUNCEA L; CONDITION; ERUCIC ACID; FAD2; INDIAN MUSTARD; LINOLENIC ACIDS; TRANSGENICS;

LINOLEIC ACID;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA JUNCEA; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA;

EID: 3843128528     PISSN: 13803743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MOLB.0000034092.47934.d6     Document Type: Article

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