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New Success in Engineering Plant Oils

03-05-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

Using genetic manipulation to modify the activity of a plant enzyme, researchers at Brookhaven have converted an unsaturated oil in the seeds of a temperate plant to the more saturated kind usually found in tropical plants. The research will be published online by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) the week of March 5, 2007.

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