Pubblicazione scientifica

Synthetic redesign of plant lipid metabolism

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
produzione e raccolta

RIASSUNTO

Summary

Plant seed lipid metabolism is an area of intensive research, including many examples of transgenic events in which oil composition has been modified. In the selected examples described in this review, progress towards the predictive manipulation of metabolism and the reconstitution of desired traits in a non‐native host is considered. The advantages of a particular oilseed crop, Camelina sativa, as a flexible and utilitarian chassis for advanced metabolic engineering and applied synthetic biology are considered, as are the issues that still represent gaps in our ability to predictably alter plant lipid biosynthesis. Opportunities to deliver useful bio‐based products via transgenic plants are described, some of which represent the most complex genetic engineering in plants to date. Future prospects are considered, with a focus on the desire to transition to more (computationally) directed manipulations of metabolism.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 20/06/2016

AUTORI

HASLAM RICHARD P
SAYANOVA OLGA
KIM HAE JIN
CAHOON EDGAR B
NAPIER JOHNATHAN A

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

Centre for Plant Science Innovation and Department of Biochemistry University of Nebraska‐Lincoln Lincoln NE 68588 USA
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY & CROP PROTECTION ROTHAMSTED RSCH WEST COMMON HARPENDEN AL5 2JQ UK

RIVISTA

The Plant Journal, 87(1), 76-86

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