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Metabolic engineering of the pathways of lipid biosynthesis has generated transgenic oilseed crops with enhanced levels of specialty fatty acids of Industrial value. Stearic acid, a 18:0 saturated fatty acid, is one such important fatty acid. Stearoylacyl carrier protein (stearoyl-ACP) desaturase (EC 1.14.99.6) catalyzes the first desaturation step in seed oil biosynthesis and converts stearoyl-ACP to oleoyl-ACP. We have cloned the complete coding region of the gene for this enzyme in Brassica juncea. Based on the sequence information of the gene in B. napus, 27-mer forward and reverse primers were designed each of which incorporated a Sal I restriciton site at the end. The primers were used to fish out the desaturase gene from B. juncea genome by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The PCR product conformed to the average size of the coding region of the gene in B. napus. The PCR product was cloned in the pGem-T vector. The cloning was reconfirmed by restriction enzyme analysis and by PCR of the recombinant plasmid. The potential use of this gene in molecular farming of designer oilseed brassicas is discussed.
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Vageeshbabu, H.S., Venkateswari, J., Kirti, P.B. et al. Molecular Cloning of the Gene Encoding Stearoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Desaturase in Brassica juncea . J. Plant Biochem. Biotechnol. 5, 51–53 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03262980
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