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  • tung oil production line press plant in malaysia
  • What makes tung tree seeds unique?
  • Seed transcriptomic analyses revealed unusual transcriptional profiles of fatty acid biosynthetic genes in tung tree, and simultaneous up-regulation of both fatty acid ¦Â-oxidation and triacylglycerol biosynthesis in mid-development seeds.
  • What is tung oil?
  • Tung oil, the major product of tung tree ( Vernicia fordii) seeds, is one of the highest quality oils for industrial applications and has been considered for the production of biodiesel.
  • Can tung oil biosynthesis be engineered in transgenic oilseed crops?
  • Previous attempts to engineer tung oil biosynthesis in transgenic oilseed crops have met with limited success. Here we present a high-quality genome assembly and developing seed transcriptomic data set for this species.
  • Can tung oil be used as biodiesel?
  • This approach provided a valuable source of genes involved in seed oil biosynthesis and other agronomic traits that will be useful for engineering other plants to produce tung oil or for breeding tung tree for a higher fruit yield and for modified oil properties for use as biodiesel.