Article
Transcriptome analysis of the oil-rich tea plant, Camellia oleifera, reveals candidate genes related to lipid metabolism.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Xia En-Hua, Jiang Jian-Jun, Huang Hui, Zhang Li-Ping, Zhang Hai-Bin, Gao Li-Zhi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Rapidly driven by the need for developing sustainable sources of nutritionally important fatty acids and the rising concerns about environmental impacts after using fossil oil, oil-plants have received increasing awareness nowadays. As an important oil-rich plant in China, Camellia oleifera has played a vital role in providing nutritional applications, biofuel productions and chemical feedstocks....
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Camellia
- Chromosome Mapping
- Conserved Sequence
- Evolution, Molecular
- Fatty Acid Desaturases
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Genome, Plant
- Lipid Metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Annotation