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PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER
Volume 25, Issue 3-4, Pages 154-163Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11105-007-0017-0
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oleate desaturase; RNA interference; edible oil; transgenic plants
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The quality of peanut oil largely depends on the quantity of oleic (18: 1) and linoleic acids (18:2). These two acids comprise more than 80% of the total fatty acids in peanuts. The oleate desaturase (FAD2) gene is important for maintaining high oleic acid content. A partial conservative sequence of the FAD2 gene from peanut was selected. The sense and antisense 260-bp fragments were amplified and subcloned into pFGC1008 binary expression vectors. A total of 21 transgenic plants were obtained via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. The resulting down-regulation of the FAD2 gene resulted in a 70% increase in oleic acid content in the seeds of transformed plants compared with a 37.93% increase in untransformed plants. The results demonstrated that the target genes were likely suppressed by hpRNA interference, a pathway capable of achieving phenotypic changes. The silencing of FAD2 enabled the development of peanut oils having novel combinations of oleic acid content that can be used in high-value applications, making this approach a reliable technique for the genetic modification of seed quality and the potential for enhancement of other traits as well.
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