A truncated FatB resulting from a single nucleotide insertion is responsible for reducing saturated fatty acids in maize seed oil

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1537-1547

  Zheng, Peizhong ^a   Ali Babar, M D ^a   Parthasarathy, Seshasai ^a   Gibson, Ryan ^a   Parliament, Kelly ^a   Flook, Josh ^a   Patterson, Thomas ^a   Friedemann, Peter ^a   Kumpatla, Siva ^a   Thompson, Steve ^a  

^a DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONE CELLS; CLONING; GENES; NUCLEOTIDES; OILS AND FATS; PALMITIC ACID;

CATALYTIC DOMAINS; HEALTH BENEFITS; HIGH THROUGHPUT; MAP-BASED CLONING; MOLECULAR BREEDING; NON-FUNCTIONAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDES; THIOESTERASES;

SATURATED FATTY ACIDS;

ZEA MAYS;

CORN OIL; FATTY ACID; OLEOYL-(ACYL-CARRIER-PROTEIN) HYDROLASE; PLANT DNA; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORN OIL; DNA, PLANT; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEEDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84925550479     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: 14322242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2317-8     Document Type: Article

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