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Shedding light on Arabidopsis seed lipid metabolism
In a recent The Plant Cell publication of the Zeeman lab (IMPB), Deslandes-Hérold and colleagues study the influence of a light-dependent biochemical pathway on seed oil accumulation using the Arabidopsis thaliana model system. They find a larger-than-anticipated effect of this pathway on the amount of oil accumulated and provide new insight into the metabolic partitioning of resources between seed storage compounds.