Fatty acid synthesis in plants occurs in plastids, and thus, export for subsequent acyl editing
and lipid assembly in the cytosol and endoplasmatic reticulum is required. Yet, the transport …

Highlights•Increased seed oil synthesis by enhanced pyruvate transport into
plastids.•Identification of a membrane transporter for plastid fatty acid export.•Mediation of …

Fatty acids (FAs) and lipids are essential—not only as membrane constituents but also for
growth and development. In plants and algae, FAs are synthesized in plastids and to a large …

Plant cells contain unique organelles such as chloroplasts with an extensive photosynthetic
membrane. In addition, specialized epidermal cells produce an extracellular cuticle …

Fatty acids, the building blocks of biological lipids, are synthesized in plastids and then
transported to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) for assimilation into specific lipid classes. The …

Acyl-acyl carrier protein thioesterases determine the amount and type of fatty acids that are
exported from the plastids. To better understand the role of the FATB class of acyl-acyl …

In plants, newly synthesized fatty acids are either directly incorporated into glycerolipids in
the plastid or exported and assembled into lipids at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). ER …

Background Chloroplast and endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized fatty acid (FA)
transporters have been reported to play important roles in oil (mainly triacylglycerols, TAG) …

Background In the past few decades, microalgae biofuel has become one of the most
interesting sources of renewable energy. However, the higher cost of microalgae biofuel …

The eukaryotic pathway of galactolipid synthesis involves fatty acid synthesis in the
chloroplast, followed by assembly of phosphatidylcholine (PC) in the endoplasmic reticulum …