Modulation of fatty acid biosynthesis by antisense beta-keto reductase expression

Plants with an antisense construct to beta -ketoacylacyl carrier protein re ductase have reduced seed and leaf fatty acid contents and show distinct ph enotypes, including leaf curl, stunted growth and wrinkled seeds, The carbo n resource allocation is altered in both of these tissues. In leaves there is an inability to synthesize transient starch and in seeds embryogenesis i s foreshortened and storage proteins accumulate prematurely.