Oil Accumulation in Transgenic Potato Tubers Alters Starch Quality and Nutritional Profile.

ABSTRACT: Plant storage compounds such as starch and lipids are important for human and animal nutrition as well as industry. There is interest in diverting some of the carbon stored in starch-rich organs (leaves, tubers, and cereal grains) into lipids in order to improve the energy density or nutritional properties of crops as well as providing new sources of feedstocks for food and manufacturing. Previously, we generated transgenic potato plants that accumulate up to 3.3% triacylglycerol (TAG) by dry weight in the tubers, which also led to changes in starch content, starch granule morphology and soluble sugar content. The aim of this study was to investigate how TAG accumulation affects the nutritional and processing properties of high oil potatoes with a particular focus on starch structure, phys

SUBMITTER: Mitchell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388768 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature