Article
Cuphea wrightii thioesterases have unexpected broad specificities on saturated fatty acids.
Plant molecular biology - 1 Jul 1997
Leonard J M, Slabaugh M B, Knapp S J
Abstract excerpt
Cuphea wrightii A. Gray is an herbaceous annual that accumulates 30% caprate (10:0) and 54% laurate (12:0) in seed storage lipids. We investigated the role of acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterases (TE) in acyl chain-length regulation in C. wrightii. Two embryo-derived cDNAs, encoding the...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arabidopsis
- Arabidopsis Proteins
- Crosses, Genetic
- DNA, Complementary
- Fatty Acids
- Gene Library
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Plant Oils
- Plant Proteins
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Seeds
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Substrate Specificity
- Thiolester Hydrolases
- Tissue Distribution