The Oleic/Linoleic Acid Ratio in Olive (Olea europaea L.) Fruit Mesocarp Is Mainly Controlled by OeFAD2-2 and OeFAD2-5 Genes Together With the Different …

ML Hernández, MD Sicardo, A Belaj… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fatty acid composition of olive oil has an important effect on the oil quality to such an extent
that oils with a high oleic and low linoleic acid contents are preferable from a nutritional and …

Breeding, molecular markers and molecular biology of the olive tree

P Hatzopoulos, G Banilas, K Giannoulia… - European Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Olive (Olea europaea L.) is a typical crop species of the Mediterranean Basin. A number of
cultivars were selected and propagated mainly vegetatively over the centuries for their …

Unsaturated lipids change in olive tree drupe and seed during fruit development and in response to cold-stress and acclimation

S D'Angeli, MM Altamura - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
The olive tree is a plant of economic value for the oil of its drupe. It is a cultigen complex
composed of genotypes with differences in cold-hardiness. About 90% of the oil is stored in …

Transcriptional regulation of stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase genes in response to abiotic stresses leads to changes in the unsaturated fatty acids composition …

ML Hernández, MD Sicardo, M Alfonso… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In higher plants, the stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase (SAD) catalyzes the first
desaturation step leading to oleic acid, which can be further desaturated to linoleic and α …

Differential Contribution of Endoplasmic Reticulum and Chloroplast ω-3 Fatty Acid Desaturase Genes to the Linolenic Acid Content of Olive ( Olea europaea …

ML Hernández, MD Sicardo… - Plant and Cell …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Linolenic acid is a polyunsaturated fatty acid present in plant lipids, which plays key roles in
plant metabolism as a structural component of storage and membrane lipids, and as a …

Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) analysis of palm oil fatty acid composition in an interspecific pseudo-backcross from Elaeis oleifera (HBK) Cortés and oil palm (Elaeis …

C Montoya, R Lopes, A Flori, D Cros, T Cuellar… - Tree genetics & …, 2013 - Springer
We chose an Elaeis interspecific pseudo-backcross of first generation (E. oleifera× E.
guineensis)× E. guineensis to identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for fatty acid composition …

Lipid Composition and Associated Gene Expression Patterns during Pollen Germination and Pollen Tube Growth in Olive (Olea europaea L.)

ML Hernández, E Lima-Cabello, JD Alché… - Plant and Cell …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Pollen lipids are essential for sexual reproduction, but our current knowledge regarding lipid
dynamics in growing pollen tubes is still very scarce. Here, we report unique lipid …

The olive DGAT2 gene is developmentally regulated and shares overlap** but distinct expression patterns with DGAT1

G Banilas, M Karampelias, I Makariti… - Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Diacylglycerol acyltransferases (DGATs) catalyse the final step of the triacylglycerol (TAG)
biosynthesis of the Kennedy pathway. Two major gene families have been shown to encode …

Computational annotation of genes differentially expressed along olive fruit development

G Galla, G Barcaccia, A Ramina, S Collani, F Alagna… - BMC Plant …, 2009 - Springer
Background Olea europaea L. is a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean basin with a
worldwide economical high impact. Differently from other fruit tree species, little is known …

ω-3 Fatty Acid Desaturase Genes Isolated from Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.): Expression in Different Tissues and Response to Cold and Wound Stress

MC Teixeira, IS Carvalho… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Two full-length cDNA clones PoleFAD7 and PoleFAD8, encoding plastidial ω-3 fatty acid
desaturases were isolated from purslane (Portulaca oleracea). The encoded enzymes …