Figure 10.

Comparison of wax and alcohol measurements of seeds from transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Whole pooled seeds from Arabidopsis plants transformed with either pCGN8557 (□; expressing KCS and FAR) or with pCGN8559 (●; expressing KCS, FAR, and WS) were analyzed by NMR to determine their mol % wax composition. The oil from those same seeds was extracted, transmethylated, and the mol % alcohol content determined by GC analyses. The wax and alcohol values were plotted against each other. The line represents the correlation between mol % wax and mol % alcohol when all of the alcohol is in the form of wax.