Metabolic engineering of medium-chain fatty acid biosynthesis in nicotiana benthamiana plant leaf lipids

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Reynolds, Kyle B ^a,b,c   Taylor, Matthew C ^a   Zhou, Xue Rong ^a   Vanhercke, Thomas ^a   Wood, Craig C ^a   Blanchard, Christopher L ^c   Singh, Surinder P ^a   Petrie, James R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Functional Grains Charles Stur University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fatty acid; Medium chain; Nicotiana; Plant biomass; Triacylglycerol; WRINKLED

Indexed keywords

COCOS NUCIFERA; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA;

EID: 84928008023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00164     Document Type: Article

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