Metabolic engineering of sugarcane to accumulate energy-dense triacylglycerols in vegetative biomass

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 661-669

  Zale, Janice ^a   Jung, Je Hyeong ^a   Kim, Jae Yoon ^a   Pathak, Bhuvan ^a   Karan, Ratna ^a   Liu, Hui ^b   Chen, Xiuhua ^a   Wu, Hao ^a   Candreva, Jason ^b   Zhai, Zhiyang ^b   Shanklin, John ^b   Altpeter, Fredy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Biofuel; Fatty acids; Sugarcane; Triacylglycerol; Vegetative oil

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; FATTY ACID; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BIOMASS; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PLANT GENE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PROCEDURES; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SUGARCANE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIOMASS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VECTORS; LIPID DROPLETS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SACCHARUM; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84930608908     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12411     Document Type: Article

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