TY - JOUR
T1 - New frontiers in oilseed biotechnology
T2 - Meeting the global demand for vegetable oils for food, feed, biofuel, and industrial applications
AU - Lu, Chaofu
AU - Napier, Johnathan A.
AU - Clemente, Thomas E.
AU - Cahoon, Edgar B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research on oilseed metabolism the labs of the authors is supported by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA 2009-05988 to CL, TEC, EBC), United States Department of Energy (Energy Frontiers Research Centers program: Center for Advanced Biofuels to EBC), National Science Foundation (NSF DBI 07-01919 to CL, EBC), European Commission Framework Programme 7 (ICON, Industrial Crops producing added value Oils for Novel chemicals to JAN, EBC), and the Nebraska Soybean Board (TEC, EBC). Rothamsted Research receives grant-aided support from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Vegetable oils have historically been a valued commodity for food use and to a lesser extent for non-edible applications such as detergents and lubricants. The increasing reliance on biodiesel as a transportation fuel has contributed to rising demand and higher prices for vegetable oils. Biotechnology offers a number of solutions to meet the growing need for affordable vegetable oils and vegetable oils with improved fatty acid compositions for food and industrial uses. New insights into oilseed metabolism and its transcriptional control are enabling biotechnological enhancement of oil content and quality. Alternative crop platforms and emerging technologies for metabolic engineering also hold promise for meeting global demand for vegetable oils and for enhancing nutritional, industrial, and biofuel properties of vegetable oils.
AB - Vegetable oils have historically been a valued commodity for food use and to a lesser extent for non-edible applications such as detergents and lubricants. The increasing reliance on biodiesel as a transportation fuel has contributed to rising demand and higher prices for vegetable oils. Biotechnology offers a number of solutions to meet the growing need for affordable vegetable oils and vegetable oils with improved fatty acid compositions for food and industrial uses. New insights into oilseed metabolism and its transcriptional control are enabling biotechnological enhancement of oil content and quality. Alternative crop platforms and emerging technologies for metabolic engineering also hold promise for meeting global demand for vegetable oils and for enhancing nutritional, industrial, and biofuel properties of vegetable oils.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.copbio.2010.11.006
DO - 10.1016/j.copbio.2010.11.006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21144729
AN - SCOPUS:79954421133
SN - 0958-1669
VL - 22
SP - 252
EP - 259
JO - Current Opinion in Biotechnology
JF - Current Opinion in Biotechnology
IS - 2
ER -