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The following website was created to disseminate data from NSF-Young Investigator Award Plant Genome Research program-funded research project DBI-0332418 "Proteomics of Seed-filling in Oilseeds" awarded October 1, 2003

 

Overview

Plant seeds are important renewable sources of natural products such as oil, protein, starch and fiber. Though the biosynthetic pathways for these storage compounds are mostly known, it is not clear how these pathways are regulated in oilseeds which produce higher quantities of oil and protein. To better understand the integrated processes ocurring during embryogenesis and seed-filling of select oilseeds, total proteins isolated from whole seeds at key developmental stages will be resolved, profiled and identified. Proteomic analysis of four diverse oilseeds, Arabidopsis, oilseed rape, castor and soybean will collectively provide more insight into seed-filling than analysis of any single oilseed.

What's New

• Study on Brassica napus developing seeds was recently published in Plant Physiology (141:32-46)
• Quantitative phosphoproteomics data of Brassica napus seed-filling is available under "links".
• The new presentation format for protein functional classification using nested tables.
  

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