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A large and functionally diverse family of Fad2 genes in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)

BACKGROUND: The application and nutritional value of vegetable oil is highly dependent on its fatty acid composition, especially the relative proportion of its two major fatty acids, i.e oleic acid and linoleic acid. Microsomal oleoyl phosphatidylcholine desaturase encoded by FAD2 gene is known to i...

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Autores principales: Cao, Shijiang, Zhou, Xue-Rong, Wood, Craig C, Green, Allan G, Singh, Surinder P, Liu, Lixia, Liu, Qing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23289946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-13-5