Acyl‐CoA elongase, a key enzyme in the development of high‐erucic acid rapeseed?

• DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.200590024
• Publication Date: 2005-04-15T08:47:35Z
• Authors: Juliette Puyaubert; Christel Garcia; Sylvette Chevalier; René Lessire
• Keywords: 2. Zero hunger; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; 3. Good health

). This very long-chain fatty acid(VLCFA) and its derivatives are feedstocks in manu-facturing slip-promoting agents, surfactants, plasticizers,nylon 1313, and wax coatings [1]. Worldwide erucic aciddemand is predicted to increase to up to 80millionpounds by 2010. A seed oil containing 80% erucic acidsynthesized by