New frontiers in oilseed biotechnology: Meeting the global demand for vegetable oils for food, feed, biofuel, and industrial applications

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 252-259

  Lu, Chaofu ^a   Napier, Johnathan A ^b   Clemente, Thomas E ^c   Cahoon, Edgar B ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL PROPERTIES; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FATTY ACID COMPOSITION; GLOBAL DEMAND; INDUSTRIAL USE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; OIL CONTENTS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION FUELS;

BIOFUELS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; FUEL OILS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRY; LUBRICATING OILS; METABOLISM; OILSEEDS; SOAPS (DETERGENTS);

VEGETABLE OILS;

ACYLTRANSFERASE; DETERGENT; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1; LUBRICATING AGENT; PALM OIL; PHOSPHOLIPID DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; RAPESEED OIL; SOYBEAN OIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL;

AGRONOMIC TRAIT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY; FOOD INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPOGENESIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPESEED; REVIEW; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SEED QUALITY; SOYBEAN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT OILS;

EID: 79954421133     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2010.11.006     Document Type: Review

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