Development of ultra-high erucic acid oil in the industrial oil crop Crambe abyssinica

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 862-870

  Li, Xueyuan ^a   van Loo, Eibertus N ^b   Gruber, Jens ^c   Fan, Jing ^a   Guan, Rui ^a   Frentzen, Margrit ^c   Stymne, Sten ^a   Zhu, Li Hua ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

BnFAE1; Crambe abyssinica; Erucic acid; FAD2 RNAi; Genetic transformation; LdLPAAT

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ERUCIC ACID; FATTY ACID ELONGASES; MESSENGER RNA; OIL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRIERUCIC ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CRAMBE; CROP; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; INHERITANCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLANT SEED; RAPESEED; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ACYLTRANSFERASES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRASSICA NAPUS; CRAMBE PLANT; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ERUCIC ACIDS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INDUSTRIAL OILS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PLANT OILS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEEDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TRIGLYCERIDES;

BRASSICA NAPUS; CRAMBE ABYSSINICA;

EID: 84864517137     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2012.00709.x     Document Type: Article

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