Oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin remain an important renewable feedstock for the
chemical industry. Their industrial use has increased during the last 10 years from 31 to 51 …

The compartmentation of neutral lipids in plants is mostly associated with seed tissues,
where triacylglycerols (TAGs) stored within lipid droplets (LDs) serve as an essential …

More than 200 years have passed since Thomas Malthus, author of 'An essay on the
principle of population'published in 1798, and highlighted 200 years later in Evans (1998) …

Triacylglycerols from plants, familiar to most people as vegetable oils, supply 25% of dietary
calories to the developed world and are increasingly a source for renewable biomaterials …

Oils in the form of triacylglycerols are the most abundant energy-dense storage compounds
in eukaryotes, and their metabolism plays a key role in cellular energy balance, lipid …

High biomass crops have recently attracted significant attention as an alternative platform for
the renewable production of high energy storage lipids such as triacylglycerol (TAG). While …

Plant oil biosynthesis involves a complex metabolic network with multiple subcellular
compartments, parallel pathways, cycles, and pathways that have a dual function to produce …

Monounsaturated fatty acids are straight-chain aliphatic monocarboxylic acids comprising a
unique carbon‑carbon double bond, also termed unsaturation. More than 50 distinct …

Camelina (C amelina sativa), a B rassicaceae oilseed, has received recent interest as a
biofuel crop and production platform for industrial oils. Limiting wider production of camelina …

Unusual fatty acids with special carbon chain length or functional groups have been
extensively used in the chemical, material, nutraceutical, and pharmaceutical industries. The …