Metabolic Engineering of Higher Plants to Produce Bio-Industrial Oils

Comprehensive Biotechnology, Second Edition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 67-85

  Taylor, D C ^a   Smith, M A ^a   Fobert, P ^a   Mietkiewska, E ^b   Weselake, R J ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bio industrial oils; Biodiesel; Brassica carinata; Camelina sativa; Medium chain fatty acids; Membrane lipids; Oil content; Oleic acid; Platform crops; Seed oil biosynthesis; Transcription factors; Very long chain fatty acids; Waxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012858499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-088504-9.00256-7     Document Type: Chapter

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