Metabolic engineering of biomass for high energy density: Oilseed-like triacylglycerol yields from plant leaves

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 231-239

  Vanhercke, Thomas ^a   El Tahchy, Anna ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Zhou, Xue Rong ^a   Shrestha, Pushkar ^a   Divi, Uday K ^a   Ral, Jean Philippe ^a   Mansour, Maged P ^a   Nichols, Peter D ^a   James, Christopher N ^b   Horn, Patrick J ^b   Chapman, Kent D ^b   Beaudoin, Frederic ^c   Ruiz López, Noemi ^c   Larkin, Philip J ^a   de Feyter, Robert C ^a   Singh, Surinder P ^a   Petrie, James R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DGAT1; Leaf; Nicotiana tabacum; Oleosin; Triacylglycerol; WRI1

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BIOFUEL; DGAT1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACID; OLEOSIN; OLEOSIN PROTEIN, SESAMUM INDICUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VEGETABLE OIL; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; WRINKLED1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DGAT1; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAF; TIME; TOBACCO; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WRI1;

DGAT1; LEAF; NICOTIANA TABACUM; OLEOSIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; WRI1;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84892863403     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12131     Document Type: Article

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