This chapter discusses engineering of plants for yield and composition of edible and
industrial triacylglycerols (TAGs). Total oil production has been increased moderately by …

Ethyl methane sulfonate‐induced mutagenesis techniques were used to obtain cerulenin
and erythromycin resistant mutant strains, which show a marked increase of 29 and 12 …

In a recent study, it has been shown that biosynthesis of triacylglycerol (TAG) in the
oleaginous green alga Chlorella desiccata is preceded by a large increase in acetyl …

Background The upgrading of rapeseed cultivars has resulted in a substantial improvement
in yield and quality in China over the past 30 years. With the selective pressure against fatty …

Bloom-forming algae Phaeocystis globosa is one of the most successful blooming algae in
the oceans due to its capacity to sense grazer-associated chemical cues and respond …

The gene for β-hydroxyacyl ACP dehydratase, a de novo fatty acid biosynthetic enzyme, was
cloned from Picea mariana (black spruce) and consists of five exons and four introns. The …

植物的乙酰辅酶A 羧化酶(ACCase) 催化乙酰辅酶A 羧化生成丙二酸单酰辅酶A,
是脂肪酸合成的第一步, 该步骤是种子脂肪酸合成与含油量形成的关键调控步骤 …

With rare exceptions, dicot plastids have been reported to contain only a multisubunit
(prokaryotic) form of acetyl-coA carboxylase (ACCase), the first committed step of lipid …

Deoxyhypusine synthase (DHS; EC 2.5. 1.46) mediates the first of two enzymatic reactions
that convert inactive eukaryotic translation initiation factor‐5A (eIF‐5A) to an activated form …

Ricinoleic acid is a kind of unsaturated fatty acids in oil of castor bean (Ricinus communis)
seeds with wide application value. However, there is little transcriptomic information on …