Article: Homeobox gene affects seed oil content

Article: Agrinomics and Renessen Establish Alliance to Enhance Seed ...
PR Newswire;  December 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... collaboration to enhance the oil content in commercially valuable seed oil crops. The collaboration ... global market for seed oil production is estimated ... attractive high oil content crops," said Doug ... that have improved seed oil and seed protein ...

Article: Oil Content and Fatty Acid Profiles of Seed ...
JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... lavenders and therefore examined the oil content and fatty acid profiles of oils extracted ... as a percentage of the seed weight. Oil content is reported as a percentage of the dry ... presented in Table 1 and quantitatively oil content varied between 18.3 and 31.5% with ...

Article: Molecular modification of triacylglycerol accumulation by ...
Canadian Journal of Botany;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... strategies for increasing the seed oil content of this crop. Based on the ... and biotechnology to enhance seed oil content has been limited in many cases ... which results in decreased seed oil content (Katavic et al. 1995). Subsequently ...

Article: Transgenic increases in seed oil content are ...
BMC Genomics;  December 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... as a key regulator of seed oil accumulation. Silencing ... substantial increases in oil content and seed size in Arabidopsis ... transcriptional control for seed oil bioassembly. For example ... a 10% difference in seed oil content has confirmed that differences ...

Article: Seed-specific over-expression of an Arabidopsis cDNA encoding a ...
Plant Physiology;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Seed-Specific Over-Expression of an Arabidopsis cDNA Encoding a Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase Enhances Seed Oil Content and Seed Weights We recently reported the cloning and characterization of an Arabidopsis (ecotype Columbia) diacylglycerol ...

Article: A Heteromeric Plastidic Pyruvate Kinase Complex Involved in ...
Plant Cell;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... preferred route of carbon from imported photosynthate to seed oil in the embryo. Plastidic pyruvate kinase catalyzes ... plastidic pyruvate kinase activity and 60% reduction in seed oil content. The seed oil phenotype is fully restored by expression of the ...

Article: Genetic analysis of seed-oil concentration across ...
Crop Science;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... as one QTL with major effects on seed-oil concentration. Mestries et al. (1998) also mapped QTL affecting seed oil content and found two to three QTL for this ... phenotypic variance across generations. Seed-oil concentration of sunflower is sensitive ...