Hydrocarbons of Scalp Hair Lipids from Teenage Males

✍ Scribed by Gershbein, Leon L. ;Baburao, K. ;Sheladia, Kanu

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1984
• Weight: 887 KB
• Volume: 86
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-5985
• DOI: 10.1002/lipi.19840860908

✦ Synopsis

chain, medlum chain and very long chain fatty aids.Thus, we need to examine such tissues as those associated with the genus Cuphea in which fully mature seeds contain dominant fatty acids in the C,, C,, and C,, range. Once the precise mechanisms involved in controlling chain length is defined, then molecular biological approaches can be employed to modify existing high lipid agricultural crops in order to produce any of fatty acids desired by industry. The same approach can be used for introducing genes from the jojoba plant to known crop plants such as rapeseed. Still another approach would be to design a plant to produce more seeds per plant and hence more lipid per plant. Probably the level of lipiaseed is limited by the capacity of the seed morphology to handle the added lipid load. Thus, future research may make possible the design of h g h lipid crops into which specific genes have been introduced either to make specific fatty acids or increase yields. All these goals must be integrated into a plant that has favorable agronomic properties for a given part of the world.