Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm.

ABSTRACT: Evaluation of transcriptome data in combination with QTL information has been applied in many crops to study the expression of genes responsible for specific phenotypes. In oil palm, the mesocarp oil extracted from E. oleifera × E. guineensis interspecific hybrids is known to have lower palmitic acid (C16:0) content compared to pure African palms. The present study demonstrates the effectiveness of transcriptome data in revealing the expression profiles of genes in the fatty acid (FA) and triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis processes in interspecific hybrids. The transcriptome assembly yielded 43,920 putative genes of which a large proportion were homologous to known genes in the public databases. Most of the genes encoding key enzymes involved in the FA and TAG synthesis pathways were iden

SUBMITTER: Ting NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7529811 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature