The consumption of healthy food, in order to strengthen the immune system, is now a major
focus of people worldwide and is essential to tackle the emerging pandemic concerns …

Monounsaturated fatty acids are straight-chain aliphatic monocarboxylic acids comprising a
unique carbon‑carbon double bond, also termed unsaturation. More than 50 distinct …

Key message Genomic editing with CRISPR/Cas9 system can simultaneously modify
multiple copies of the BnaFAD2 gene to develop novel variations in fatty acids profiles in …

Seed oils are used as edible oils and increasingly also for industrial applications. Although
high-oleic seed oil is preferred for industrial use, most seed oil is high in polyunsaturated …

RNA interference (RNAi) has been recently employed as an effective experimental tool for
both basic and applied biological studies in various organisms including plants. RNAi …

Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) is being domesticated as an oilseed cash cover crop to be
grown in the off-season throughout temperate regions of the world. With its diploid genome …

Vegetable oils are important components of the human diet, and are also actively used for
industrial and cosmetic purposes and as biofuels. The scope of oil application largely …

Modifying the fatty acid composition of Brassica seed oil to increase its value as a nutritional
or as an industrial oil has been a major objective in Brassica breeding programs worldwide …

The seed oil content and the fatty acid composition of a germplasm collection of Brassica
napus and Brassica rapa currently grown in Galicia (northwestern Spain) were evaluated in …

Main conclusion Transgenic technology in Indian mustard has expedited crop improvement
programs. Further, there is a need to optimize gene editing protocols and find out the …