Article
Antisense expression of a omega-3 fatty acid desaturase gene in tobacco plants enhances susceptibility against pathogens.
2004-03-01
Abstract excerpt
Membrane lipids in higher plants contain a high proportion of trienoic fatty acids. ω-3 Fatty acid desaturases act on membrane lipids to catalyze the formation of trienoic acids. We isolated a wound-inducible Arabidopsis plastid ω-3 fatty acid desaturase (fad7) gene, and generated transgenic tobacco plants constitutively expressing the antisense fad7 RNA. Selected transgenic lines showed significant re...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c18b4c13-7b17-5436-bef7-0b6672b6812a
- DOI
- 10.1139/b03-151
