The explanation was found in significantly fewer fruits per unit length of hedgerow and smaller oil content at 2.5 m than 5.0 m spacing in E W but not in N S.
Seeds with high oil content have more oleosins than those with low oil content [ 25].
Low oil content seeds adopt direct oil extraction.
When we performed the AS11 dgat1) x lpcat2 crosses, the dgat1/ lpcat2 He/H shows only a small reduction in oil content which suggests that when DGAT1 is partially expressed (He), and LPCAT2 is knocked out (H), there is a reduced capacity for compensation in TAG biosynthesis, probably because PDAT is insufficiently "fueled" with its co-substrate, PC.
Seed oil content (Oil): Oil is expressed as the percentage of oil in weight found in the cotton seed [ 44].
Moreover, the diploid characteristic, high oil content, small genome size, and smaller number of lipid-related genes distinguish sesame from other polyploid oil crops such as soybean, peanut, and rapeseed and make it a valuable plant model to study oil biosynthesis and various traits [ 2].
Among the oil-bearing tree species, jatropha is desired due to its multiple positive attributes including drought hardiness, rapid growth, easy propagation, high oil content, small gestation period, wide adaptation [ 18] as well as high quality biodiesel that its oil can be converted to.
As storage lipid accumulation may be regarded as an adaptive trait (Linder, 2000), and even small modifications of seed oil content and/or fatty acid composition potentially confer an advantage in specific environmental conditions, natural variation may be useful for the identification of regulatory mechanisms.
In the G33 × G43 mapping population, the QTL with the smallest interval was for oil content in the second harvest year.
