Carotenoids are a diverse group of pigments widely distributed in nature. The vivid yellow,
orange, and red colors of many horticultural crops are attributed to the overaccumulation of …

Fruiting structures in the angiosperms range from completely dry to highly fleshy organs and
provide many of our major crop products, including grains. In the model plant Arabidopsis …

Oil palm is the most productive oil-bearing crop. Although it is planted on only 5% of the total
world vegetable oil acreage, palm oil accounts for 33% of vegetable oil and 45% of edible …

African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops. Species
can constitute a single crop capable to fulfill the growing global demand for vegetable oils …

Fleshy fruits have evolved to be attractive to frugivores in order to enhance seed dispersal,
and have become an indispensable part of the human diet. Here we review the recent …

Triacylglycerols from plants, familiar to most people as vegetable oils, supply 25% of dietary
calories to the developed world and are increasingly a source for renewable biomaterials …

The current study is motivated by the strict environmental regulations regarding the
utilization and consumption of ecofriendly materials. In this context, the aim of this study has …

The compartmentation of neutral lipids in plants is mostly associated with seed tissues,
where triacylglycerols (TAGs) stored within lipid droplets (LDs) serve as an essential …

During the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift in our understanding of the roles of
intracellular lipid droplets (LDs). New genetic, biochemical and imaging technologies have …

Oil palm can accumulate up to 90% oil in its mesocarp, the highest level observed in the
plant kingdom. In contrast, the closely related date palm accumulates almost exclusively …