Article
Genome-Wide Association Study of Arabidopsis thaliana Identifies Determinants of Natural Variation in Seed Oil Composition.
The Journal of heredity - 1 May 2016
Branham Sandra E, Wright Sara J, Reba Aaron, Linder C Randal
Abstract excerpt
The renewable source of highly reduced carbon provided by plant triacylglycerols (TAGs) fills an ever increasing demand for food, biodiesel, and industrial chemicals. Each of these uses requires different compositions of fatty acid proportions in seed oils. Identifying the genes responsible for variation in seed oil composition in nature provides targets for bioengineering fatty acid proportions optimized for...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Chromosome Mapping
- Fatty Acids
- Genes, Plant
- Genetic Association Studies
- Lipid Metabolism
- Plant Oils
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Seeds
