Oil Content Formation in Oil Crops
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 150
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Interests: molecular and physiological regulation on crop growth and development; crop genetics and engineering; crop breeding
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Interests: rapeseed cultivation technology; crops’ nutritional physiology
Interests: plant; genomics; systematics; bioinformatics; evolution; RNA-seq analysis; multi-omics; molecular biology of plants
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Dear Colleagues,
Oil is an essential nutrient for humans that mainly originates from oil crops, including soybean, rapeseed, peanut and others. Oil crops normally accumulate oils during seed development. The oil deposition in seeds is a highly intricate regulatory network, which is affected by genetic control, agronomic practices and climate changes. Although numerous investigations into seed oil formation have been carried out, our knowledge of the modulations of oil formation remains superficial.
Oil formation can be divided into three stages: The first step is the precursor supply, which is the gathering of carbohydrates and occurs in the cytoplasm. The second step is the fatty acid biosynthesis in the plastid. The third step is the transportation of fatty acids to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane for further processing such as folding to the oil body. Consequently, alterations at every metabolic node can result in the formation of oil. In this Special Issue, research on all regulatory factors affecting oil content formation, at the agronomic, physiological and molecular levels, are welcome.
Dr. Shuijin Hua
Dr. Qingsong Zuo
Prof. Dr. Hai Du
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agronomy
- genes
- metabolic
- molecular regulation
- oil content
- physiology
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