Transcript profiling and gene characterization of three fatty acid desaturase genes in high, moderate, and low linolenic acid genotypes of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) and their role in linolenic acid accumulation

Genome

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 471-483

  Banik, Mitali ^a   Duguid, Scott ^b   Cloutier, Sylvie ^a   Belzile, Francois ^a  

^a Cereal Research Centre   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

linolenic acid; FAD3; fatty acid desaturase; flax; omega 3 fatty acids; real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; LINOLENIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT DNA; PLANT RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; FLAX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOP CODON;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, PLANT; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FLAX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

LINUM USITATISSIMUM;

EID: 79961201517     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g11-013     Document Type: Article

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