Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAT), which converts lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) to phosphatidic acid (PA), catalyzes the addition of fatty acyl moieties to the sn-2 position of the LPA glycerol backbone in triacylglycerol (TAG) biosynthesis. We recently reported the cloning and temporal-spatial expression of a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) AhLPAT2gene, showing that an increase in AhLPAT2 t...

There's a bit of debate as to which oil to drizzle over your food. Common cooking oils, including corn, olive, safflower, and peanut oils are made up of mostly unsaturated (monoand polyunsaturated, to be exact) fats, which are often described as ?healthy fats.? Research suggests that these two types of fat may help lower cholesterol, normalize blood clotting, improve insulin and blood sugar lev...

There's a bit of debate as to which oil to drizzle over your food. Common cooking oils, including corn, olive, safflower, and peanut oils are made up of mostly unsaturated (monoand polyunsaturated, to be exact) fats, which are often described as ?healthy fats.? Research suggests that these two types of fat may help lower cholesterol, normalize blood clotting, improve insulin and blood sugar lev...

Hunger and food insecurity can be minimized by doubling crop yield without increasing cultivated land area and fertilizer applied. Since plant breeding has not genetically doubled photosynthesis per unit leaf area, an approach for doubling crop yield would be through a biotechnology that reprograms metabolic pathways in favor of photosynthesis. The anchor of this biotechnology is glutamate dehy...

Available evidence (Greenwald, 1961; Emmens & Finn, 1962) shows that natural and synthetic oestrogens given to female rats alter ova transport and thus prevent pregnancy. Preliminary work in our laboratory showed that when oestrogens were administered to male rats which were then mated with normal females, pregnancy did not ensue. The present study was undertaken to in¬ vestigate the mechanism ...

BACKGROUND Fatty acid desaturases are enzymes that introduce double bonds into fatty acyl chains. Extensive studies of fatty acid desaturases have been done in many plants. However, less is known about the diversity of this gene family in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), an important oilseed crop that is cultivated worldwide. RESULTS In this study, twelve novel AhFADs genes were identified and i...

There's a bit of debate as to which oil to drizzle over your food. Common cooking oils, including corn, olive, safflower, and peanut oils are made up of mostly unsaturated (monoand polyunsaturated, to be exact) fats, which are often described as ?healthy fats.? Research suggests that these two types of fat may help lower cholesterol, normalize blood clotting, improve insulin and blood sugar lev...

There's a bit of debate as to which oil to drizzle over your food. Common cooking oils, including corn, olive, safflower, and peanut oils are made up of mostly unsaturated (monoand polyunsaturated, to be exact) fats, which are often described as ?healthy fats.? Research suggests that these two types of fat may help lower cholesterol, normalize blood clotting, improve insulin and blood sugar lev...

BACKGROUND Nonomuraea dietziae is a promising microorganism to mediate the region-specific monooxygenation reaction of cyclosporine A (CsA). The main product [(4'-OH)MeLeu]4-CsA possesses high anti-HIV/HCV and hair growth-stimulating activities while avoiding the immunosuppressive effect of CsA. However, the low conversion efficiency restricts the clinical application. In this study, the produc...

There's a bit of debate as to which oil to drizzle over your food. Common cooking oils, including corn, olive, safflower, and peanut oils are made up of mostly unsaturated (monoand polyunsaturated, to be exact) fats, which are often described as ?healthy fats.? Research suggests that these two types of fat may help lower cholesterol, normalize blood clotting, improve insulin and blood sugar lev...