2019
Increasing Soybean Oil Yield Through Targeted Gene Silencing and Overexpression (1920-162-0115-A)
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Contributor/Checkoff:
United Soybean Board
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
(none assigned)
Parent Project:
Increasing Soybean Oil Yield by Targeted Silencing of a Novel Negative Regulator of Fatty Acid Synthesis (1620-632-6601)
Lead Principal Investigator:
Jay Thelen, University of Missouri
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
1920-162-0115-A
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
United Soybean Board
$95,286
Institution Funded:
University of Missouri
$95,286
Brief Project Summary:

Unique Keywords:
#oil content, fatty acid pathway, fatty acid synthesis, #seed composition
Information And Results
Project Deliverables

• Transgenic soybean lines with significantly (t-test, one-way ANOVA) higher levels of seed oil and no significant change in protein content compared to non-transgenic reference lines. Transgenic lines will be produced containing 1) a BADC RNAi silencing cassette and 2) an overexpression cassette containing a truncated form of a-CT. Both of these strategies have been used successfully in Arabidopsis thaliana and Camelina sativa as proof-of-principal.

Final Project Results

Updated December 9, 2019:

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