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Title: Heterogeneous Distribution of Erucic Acid in Brassica napus Seeds

Abstract

Brassica napus (B. napus) is the world's most widely grown temperate oilseed crop. Although breeding for human consumption has led to removal of erucic acid from refined canola oils, there is renewed interest in the industrial uses of erucic acid derived from B. napus, and there is a rich germplasm available for use. Here, low- and high-erucic acid accessions of B. napus seeds were examined for the distribution of erucic acid-containing lipids and the gene transcripts encoding the enzymes involved in pathways for its incorporation into triacylglycerols (TAGs) across the major tissues of the seeds. In general, the results indicate that a heterogeneous distribution of erucic acid across B. napus seed tissues was contributed by two isoforms (out of six) of FATTY ACYL COA ELONGASE (FAE1) and a combination of phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT)- and diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT)-mediated incorporation of erucic acid into TAGs in cotyledonary tissues. An absence of the expression of these two FAE1 isoforms accounted for the absence of erucic acid in the TAGs of the lowerucic accession.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1]
  1. Huazhong Agricultural Univ., Wuhan (China). National Key Lab. of Crop Genetic Improvement
  2. Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States). Dept. of Biological Sciences. Center for Plant Lipid Research; Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States). BioDiscovery Inst.
  3. Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States). Dept. of Biological Sciences. Center for Plant Lipid Research; Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States). BioDiscovery Inst.; Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of North Texas, Denton, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1803957
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0020325
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Frontiers in Plant Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1664-462X
Publisher:
Frontiers Research Foundation
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Plant Sciences; Brassica napus; canola; erucic acid; spatial distribution; matrix assisted laser desorption/ionizationmass spectrometry imaging

Citation Formats

Lu, Shaoping, Aziz, Mina, Sturtevant, Drew, Chapman, Kent D., and Guo, Liang. Heterogeneous Distribution of Erucic Acid in Brassica napus Seeds. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01744.
Lu, Shaoping, Aziz, Mina, Sturtevant, Drew, Chapman, Kent D., & Guo, Liang. Heterogeneous Distribution of Erucic Acid in Brassica napus Seeds. United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01744
Lu, Shaoping, Aziz, Mina, Sturtevant, Drew, Chapman, Kent D., and Guo, Liang. Wed . "Heterogeneous Distribution of Erucic Acid in Brassica napus Seeds". United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01744. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1803957.
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author = {Lu, Shaoping and Aziz, Mina and Sturtevant, Drew and Chapman, Kent D. and Guo, Liang},
abstractNote = {Brassica napus (B. napus) is the world's most widely grown temperate oilseed crop. Although breeding for human consumption has led to removal of erucic acid from refined canola oils, there is renewed interest in the industrial uses of erucic acid derived from B. napus, and there is a rich germplasm available for use. Here, low- and high-erucic acid accessions of B. napus seeds were examined for the distribution of erucic acid-containing lipids and the gene transcripts encoding the enzymes involved in pathways for its incorporation into triacylglycerols (TAGs) across the major tissues of the seeds. In general, the results indicate that a heterogeneous distribution of erucic acid across B. napus seed tissues was contributed by two isoforms (out of six) of FATTY ACYL COA ELONGASE (FAE1) and a combination of phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT)- and diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT)-mediated incorporation of erucic acid into TAGs in cotyledonary tissues. An absence of the expression of these two FAE1 isoforms accounted for the absence of erucic acid in the TAGs of the lowerucic accession.},
doi = {10.3389/fpls.2019.01744},
journal = {Frontiers in Plant Science},
number = ,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Wed Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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