Metabolic Engineering Plant Seeds with Fish Oil-Like Levels of DHA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Petrie, James R ^a   Shrestha, Pushkar ^a   Zhou, Xue Rong ^a   Mansour, Maged P ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Belide, Srinivas ^a   Nichols, Peter D ^a   Singh, Surinder P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FISH OIL; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; LINOLEOYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BRASSICA; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FISH OILS; HUMANS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEEDS;

ALGAE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 84868673851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049165     Document Type: Article

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