Table 2.

Altered stress tolerance upon genetic manipulation of fatty acid synthetic genes.

Enzyme	Genea	Genetic manipulationb	Stress tolerancec	Reference
Stearoyl-ACP desaturase	SSI2/FAB2	OE in Brassica napus from Sapium sebiferum	↑freezing	(Peng et al., 2018)
ω-6 Fatty acid desaturase	FAD2	OE in Oryza sativa	↑cold	(Shi et al., 2012)
ω-3 Fatty acid desaturase	FAD3	OE in Nicotiana tabacum from B. napus	↑drought	(Zhang et al., 2005)
		OE in Lycopersicon esculentum	↑cold	(Yu et al., 2009)
		OE in L. esculentum	↑salt	(Wang et al., 2014)
		OE in N. tabacum from Chorispora bungeana	↑cold, drought and salt	(Shi et al., 2018)
	FAD7	OE in N. tabacum from Arabidopsis thaliana	↑cold	(Kodama et al., 1994)
		CS in N. tabacum from A. thaliana	↑heat	(Murakami et al., 2000)
		AS in N. tabacum from A. thaliana	↓drought and salt	(Im et al., 2002)
	FAD8	OE in N. tabacum from A. thaliana	↑drought	(Zhang et al., 2005)
Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase	ATS1/ACT1	OE in N. tabacum from A. thaliana	↑cold	(Murata et al., 1992)
		AS in L. esculentum	↑heat	(Sui et al., 2007)
		OE in A. thaliana from Suaeda salsa	↑salt	(Sui et al., 2017)
		OE in A. thaliana from Ammopiptanthus mongolicus	↑cold, freezing and oxidative	(Xue et al., 2019)

^aArabidopsis gene name.

^bOE, overexpression; CS, co-suppression; AS, antisense suppression.

^c”↑”, enhanced; “↓”, reduced.