ArticlePlant biotechnology journal2018
Engineering Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz for enhanced oil and seed yields by combining diacylglycerol acyltransferase1 and glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase expression.
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- Kinetic complexities of triacylglycerol accumulation in developing embryos from Camelina sativa provide evidence for multiple biosynthetic systems.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2022Article
- Characterization of sucrose binding protein as a seed-specific promoter in transgenic tobacco Nicotiana tabacum L.PloS one · 2022Article
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- The metabolic origins of non-photorespiratory CO2 release during photosynthesis: a metabolic flux analysis.Plant physiology · 2021Article
- Increased Cuticle Waxes by Overexpression of WSD1 Improves Osmotic Stress Tolerance inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- CamRegBase: a gene regulation database for the biofuel crop, Camelina sativa.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2020Article
- Metabolic Engineering a Model OilseedFrontiers in plant science · 2020Review
- RNA-seq data reveals a coordinated regulation mechanism of multigenes involved in the high accumulation of palmitoleic acid and oil in sea buckthorn berry pulp.BMC plant biology · 2019Article
- Small RNA sequencing reveals dynamic microRNA expression of important nutrient metabolism during development ofInternational journal of biological sciences · 2019Article
- Camelina sativa, an oilseed at the nexus between model system and commercial crop.Plant cell reports · 2018Review
- Seeds as oil factories.Plant reproduction · 2018Review
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Abstract
Plant seed oil-based liquid transportation fuels (i.e., biodiesel and green diesel) have tremendous potential as environmentally, economically and technologically feasible alternatives to petroleum-derived fuels. Due to their nutritional and industrial importance, one of the major objectives is to increase the seed yield and oil production of oilseed crops via biotechnological approaches. Camelina sativa, an emerging oilseed crop, has been proposed as an ideal crop for biodiesel and bioproduct applications. Further increase in seed oil yield by increasing the flux of carbon from increased photosynthesis into triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis will make this crop more profitable. To increase the oil yield, we engineered Camelina by co-expressing the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. diacylglycerol acyltransferase1 (DGAT1) and a yeast cytosolic glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPD1) genes under the control of seed-specific promoters. Plants co-expressing DGAT1 and GPD1 exhibited up to 13% higher seed oil content and up to 52% increase in seed mass compared to wild-type plants. Further, DGAT1- and GDP1-co-expressing lines showed significantly higher seed and oil yields on a dry weight basis than the wild-type controls or plants expressing DGAT1 and GPD1 alone. The oil harvest index (g oil per g total dry matter) for DGTA1- and GPD1-co-expressing lines was almost twofold higher as compared to wild type and the lines expressing DGAT1 and GPD1 alone. Therefore, combining the overexpression of TAG biosynthetic genes, DGAT1 and GPD1, appears to be a positive strategy to achieve a synergistic effect on the flux through the TAG synthesis pathway, and thereby further increase the oil yield.
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