Article
Characterization of a cruciferin deficient mutant of Arabidopsis and its utility for overexpression of foreign proteins in plants.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Lin Yimei, Pajak Agnieszka, Marsolais Frédéric, McCourt Peter, Riggs C Daniel
Abstract excerpt
Plant seeds naturally accumulate storage reserves (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids) that are mobilized during germination to provide energy and raw materials to support early seedling growth. Seeds have been exploited as bioreactors for the production to foreign materials, but stable, high level expression has been elusive, in part due to the intrinsic bias for producing the natural reserves in their typical...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
- Lipid Metabolism
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Seeds