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Sugar Potentiation of Fatty Acid and Triacylglycerol Accumulation.
Plant physiology - 1 Oct 2017
Zhai Zhiyang, Liu Hui, Xu Changcheng, Shanklin John
Abstract excerpt
Photosynthetically derived sugar provides carbon skeletons for lipid biosynthesis. We used mutants of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and the expression of oleogenic factors to investigate relationships among sugar availability, lipid synthesis, and the accumulation of triacylglycerol (TAG) in leaf tissue. The adg1 mutation disables the small subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, the first step in starch...
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