Nutritional Content
Amino Acids
- seeds usually low in lysine or methionine
- site directed mutagenesis on seed storage protein
- deregulate lysine biosynthesis
- abolish feedback inhibition of sythesis enzymes cloned from Corneybacterium and E. coli
- 2x lysine content in canola, 5 x lysine content in soybean
Lipids
- plants oils worth 70 billion by 2010
- transgenics with enzymes that alter saturation