Table VI. Literature reports on transgenic events in rapeseed leading to an increase in seed oil content.
Gene | Wild-Type Oil or Fatty Acid Content | Maximal Reported Change in Lipida | Source of Data |
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% | |||
Overexpression of homomeric acetyl-CoA carboxylase | 38.4 | +10.4 | Roesler et al. (1997); Table I |
Overexpression of a yeast sn-2 acyltransferase (SLC1-1) with lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase activity | 33.9 | +7.4 | Zou et al. (1997); Table VI |
Overexpression of a yeast sn-2 acyltransferase (SLC1-1) with lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase activity (field trial) | 41.5 | +5.6 | Taylor et al. (2002); Table I |
Overexpression of rapeseed diacylglycerol acyltransferase1 (DGAT1) | 30.1 | +4.1 | Weselake et al. (2008); Table III |
41.5 | +5.8 | Figure 1 | |
Seed-specific overexpression of yeast glycerol-3-P dehydrogenase | 21.7 | +5.7 | Vigeolas et al. (2007); Figure 2b |
Seed-specific expression of rapeseed leafy cotyledon1 (LEC1) and a LEC1-like protein | 35.6 | +7.2 | Tan et al. (2011); Table I |
Most studies report results for multiple independent transgenic lines. The highest increase relative to the wild type (absolute percentage) is reproduced.
The original published data were converted to units of percentage (weight/dry weight).