Increasing growth and yield by altering carbon metabolism in a transgenic leaf oil crop.

ABSTRACT: Engineering high biomass plants that produce oil (triacylglycerol or TAG) in vegetative rather than seed-related tissues could help meet our growing demand for plant oil. Several studies have already demonstrated the potential of this approach by creating transgenic crop and model plants that accumulate TAG in their leaves and stems. However, TAG synthesis may compete with other important carbon and energy reserves, including carbohydrate production, and thereby limit plant growth. The aims of this study were thus: first, to investigate the effect of TAG accumulation on growth and development of previously generated high leaf oil tobacco plants; and second, to increase plant growth and/or oil yields by further altering carbon fixation and partitioning. This study showed that TAG accumulati

SUBMITTER: Mitchell MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539989 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature