Step changes in leaf oil accumulation via iterative metabolic engineering

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue , 2017, Pages 237-246

  Vanhercke, Thomas ^a   Divi, Uday K ^a   El Tahchy, Anna ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Mitchell, Madeline ^a   Taylor, Matthew C ^a   Eastmond, Peter J ^b   Bryant, Fiona ^b   Mechanicos, Anna ^a   Blundell, Cheryl ^a   Zhi, Yao ^a,c   Belide, Srinivas ^a   Shrestha, Pushkar ^a   Zhou, Xue Rong ^a   Ral, Jean Philippe ^a   White, Rosemary G ^a   Green, Allan ^a   Singh, Surinder P ^a   Petrie, James R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Leaf; LEC2; Nicotiana tabacum; SDP1; Triacylglycerol

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBON; CROPS; FATTY ACIDS; GLYCEROL; METABOLISM; OILSEEDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VEGETABLE OILS;

LEAF; LEC2; NICOTIANA TABACUM; SDP1; TRIACYLGLYCEROLS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CARBON; FATTY ACID; LEC2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PLANT PROTEIN; SUGAR DEPENDENT LIPASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL; LEC2 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; SPD1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CARBON ALLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; LEAF TISSUE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ARABIDOPSIS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT OILS; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85010002492     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.12.007     Document Type: Article

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