Jatropha curcas, a biofuel crop: Functional genomics for understanding metabolic pathways and genetic improvement

Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1172-1182

  Maghuly, Fatemeh ^a   Laimer, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biofuel; Breeding; Domestication; Purging nut

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES; BREEDING; DOMESTICATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC IMPROVEMENTS; METABOLIC PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR BREEDING; PURGING NUTS;

CROPS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OILS AND FATS; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

BIOFUELS;

ABSCISIC ACID; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 1; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE 2; DITERPENE; FATTY ACID; MACROGOL; MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEIN; STEARIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOLISTIC TRANSFORMATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYTOTOXICITY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY CROP; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GAMMA RADIATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GERMINATION; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRID; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; ISOELECTRIC POINT; JATROPHA CURCAS; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOGENESIS; MAMMAL CELL; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAME; PH; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLLEN GERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEOMICS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REVERSE GENETICS; REVIEW; SEED YIELD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSESTERIFICATION; TUMOR PROMOTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BIOFUEL; BREEDING; DOMESTICATION; PURGING NUT;

BIOFUELS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; DNA SHUFFLING; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; JATROPHA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANT OILS; PLANT PROTEINS; SEEDS;

EID: 84884921821     PISSN: 18606768     EISSN: 18607314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/biot.201300231     Document Type: Review

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