Increase the Unsaturated Fatty Acid Content of Crops

Unsaturated fatty acids are indispensable fatty acids for the human body. Unsaturated fatty acids are divided into monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids according to the number of double bonds. Some unsaturated fatty acids that the human body cannot synthesize must be supplemented from the diet. When people do not have enough unsaturated fatty acids in the diet, it will have various adverse effects on the human body, such as affecting the intellectual development of infants and children and even inducing various diseases.

As a major source of dietary supplementation of unsaturated fatty acids for humans, increasing the amount of unsaturated fatty acids in crops is important for improving crops' fat quality and enhancing people's body composition. Lifeasible has many years of experience in providing project services to improve the nutritional value of crops. We have played an important role in helping researchers to improve the fat quality of many crops, including but not limited to corn, soybeans, oats, and peanuts, through variety selection and genetic improvement studies.

hpRNA gene silencing

Genetic engineering is an important tool for crop breeding, and transgenic technology can improve plant traits and the nutritional value of their products. Lifeasible provides double-stranded RNA-mediated post-transcriptional gene silencing technology, which plays an important facilitating role in the study of enhancing unsaturated fatty acid content in crops; we mainly use reverse repetitive sequence gene silencing constructs to transform plants that can be transcribed into mRNA in vivo and can self-complement to form hairpin RNA (hpRNA), which contains a double-stranded RNA structure that can lead to degradation of the specific gene-encoded mRNA. We mainly use hpRNA gene silencing technology to suppress the expression of major related genes encoding crop fat dehydrogenase, thereby increasing the unsaturated fatty acid content of crops and improving their nutritional value. This technology provides an important research strategy for a further selection of genetically stable and good trait crops or varieties with a high unsaturated fatty acid content. It has more economical, fast, and efficient technical features.

Our service processes

Lifeasible has been deeply involved in the field of agricultural synthetic biology research for many years and has achieved some remarkable results. Our gene silencing technologies and services can help our clients advance their projects and experiments to obtain crops with superior traits, increase crop nutritional value and improve crop quality for our clients. Not only do we have an experienced team of expert technicians who are constantly optimizing experimental protocols and developing new technologies. At the same time, we have an advanced technology platform to provide our customers with the most realistic and reliable data results. As your trusted partner, we can support your project research needs. If you are interested in our services, please feel free to contact us.