Journal
LIPIDS
Volume 44, Issue 10, Pages 945-951Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-009-3337-z
Keywords
Fatty acid analysis; Analytical techniques; Plant lipid biochemistry; Neutral lipid biosynthetic enzymes; Metabolism
Funding
- United Soybean Board
- Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station
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The wild type (Wt) and mutant form of yeast (sphingolipid compensation) genes, SLC1 and SLC1-1, have been shown to have lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAT) activities (Nageic et al. in J Biol Chem 269:22156-22163, 1993). Expression of these LPAT genes was reported to increase oil content in transgenic Arabidopsis and Brassica napus. It is of interest to determine if the TAG content increase would also be seen in soybeans. Therefore, the wild type SLC1 was expressed in soybean somatic embryos under the control of seed specific phaseolin promoter. Some transgenic somatic embryos and in both T2 and T3 transgenic seeds showed higher oil contents. Compared to controls, the average increase in triglyceride values went up by 1.5% in transgenic somatic embryos. A maximum of 3.2% increase in seed oil content was observed in a T3 line. Expression of the yeast Wt LPAT gene did not alter the fatty acid composition of the seed oil.
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