In this article we will discuss about the production of industrial oil from unusual fatty acids. Most of the vegetable oils have marginal use in industries due to complex nature of fatty acids. The typical mixture of saturated and unsaturated C16 and C18 fatty acids that comprise major vegetable oils. In recent years considerable effort has been directed towards genetically [...]
In this article we will discuss about the improvement of seed oil (pufa oil) for health benefits. Plant oil containing greatest degree of fatty acids is essential nutrients for animal including human being. The unsaturated fatty acid rice oil undoubtedly increases nutritional value of edible oil. Polies unsaturated fatty acids are popularly known as PUFA oil play a critical role [...]
In this article we will discuss about the markers for chloroplast transformation. Generally, dominant antibiotic resistant genes are used in plastid transformation. Introduction of antibiotic resistant gene in the plastid genome facilitated the maintenance of high number of plastid genome copies in a cell. Chloroplast transformation invariably and unavoidably produces chimeric tissues, which requires identification of transplastomic cells in order [...]