Authors of the paper include Erin Bomati of Scripps Oceanography; Joy Haley of the Air Force Research Laboratory; and Joseph Noel of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research supported the study.
This work has major implications for modulating the fatty-acid profiles in plants, which is terribly important, not only to sustainable food production and nutrition but now also to biorenewable chemicals and fuels, says corresponding author Joseph Noel, a professor and director of the Jack H. Ski
Date: May 15, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Plant Fatty Acid Production Cellular Secrets Understood
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - A curious twist in a family of plant proteins called chalcone-isomerase recently was discovered by Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientist Joseph Noel and colleagues at Iowa State University led by Eve Wurtele.