Abstract
Flowering plants store lipids in organs such as seeds, pollen, flowers, roots and stems in the form of subcellular structures called oil bodies (Huang 1996). Oil bodies are formed by a matrix of triacylglycerol which is surrounded by a monolayer of phospholipids. Oleosins are one of the major proteins present on the surface of such bodies (Huang 1992). The most studied oleosins are those of seeds (Huang 1992; Murphy 1993; Herman 1995), although evidence of their presence in several tissues of the anther is emerging (Oliveira et al. 1993; Ruiter 1997; Wu et al. 1997).
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Alché, J.D., Castro, A.J., Rodríguez-García, M.I. (1999). Expression of oleosin genes in the olive (Olea europaea L) anther. In: Clément, C., Pacini, E., Audran, JC. (eds) Anther and Pollen. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59985-9_8
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