Baoxiu Qi1, 4, Tom Fraser1, Sam Mugford2, 5, Gary Dobson3, Olga Sayanova2, 6, Justine Butler1, Johnathan A Napier2, 6, A Keith Stobart1
& Colin M Lazarus11
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UG, England, UK.
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Long Ashton Research Station, Long Ashton, Bristol, BS41 9AF, England, UK.
3
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK.
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Current address: Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, 4 South, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, England, UK.
5
Present address: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, England, UK.
6
Current address: Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2JQ, England, UK.
Correspondence should be addressed to Baoxiu Qi bssbq@bath.ac.uk
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8-desaturation biosynthetic pathways for the formation of C20 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Arabidopsis thaliana was transformed sequentially with genes encoding a 
