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Development Of High Value Oil Traits Using The Model Oilseed Crop Camelina Sativa, Evan Updike
Development Of High Value Oil Traits Using The Model Oilseed Crop Camelina Sativa, Evan Updike
Department of Biochemistry: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Plant oils are an important source of food, fuel, and feed in our society today. The oil found in the seeds of plants is composed almost entirely of triacylglycerol (TAG) molecules, which consist of three fatty acids esterified to a glycerol backbone. As crude oil supplies decline, vegetable oils are gaining traction as a renewable substitute to petroleum-based materials in fuels, lubricants, and specialty oleochemicals. However, as it currently stands vegetable oils do not possess the properties necessary to fill the void of a petroleum free world.
To address this problem, plant biotechnologists have done extensive work on genetic engineering …