High-value oils from plants

Plant Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 640-655

  Dyer, John M ^a   Stymne, Sten ^b   Green, Allan G ^c   Carlsson, Anders S ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biorefining; Industrial oils; Lipids; Seed storage oils; Triacylglycerols; Unusual fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; REVIEW;

FATTY ACIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT OILS; SEEDS;

EID: 43549085282     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2008.03430.x     Document Type: Review

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