sgenic lines. For example, KCS16 is a member of the 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthase family, which is involved in the biosynthesis of very long chain FAs. In Arabidopsis, a kcs16 mutant had a reduced ‘eicosenoic acid content in seeds. Modest seed oil content increases were also observed in recombinant expression studies using modified safflower GPAT cDNA and GPAT from Escherichia coli. Of course, for oil crop breeding, what is of concern is the agricultural characteristics such as seed weight and oil PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19811080 content. At present, much research on improving oil production by transgenic technology is get Indirubin-3′-oxime ongoing. However, previous studies focused on genes which changed only seed mass or oil content. Also, most of the genes encode the enzymes and transcription factors regulating carbon metabolism, FA synthesis, and TAG synthesis pathways. In the present study, it was found that BnGRF2a increases oil production by regulating the capacity of both the source and the sink, which is more significant for elevating oil production in oil crop breeding. Although overexpression of BnGRF2a in flower buds induced less efficient selffertilization, such a drawback could be avoided using a tissue-specific promoter. Thus, this gene may represent The protein kinase gene family is one of the largest and most highly conserved gene families in plants. PKs phosphorylate proteins for functional changes and are involved in nearly all cellular processes, thereby regulating almost all aspects of plant growth, development, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. PK genes exist by the hundreds in all plant species in which they have been surveyed. Genome-wide identification of PKs in a number of plant species have indicated the presence of more than 3% of the annotated proteins coding for PKs, an indication of their functional importance. The functional classification of PKs was initially conducted based on the conservation and phylogeny analysis of the catalytic domains of eukaryotic PKs, which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. et al., 1988; Hanks and Hunter, 1995). These classifications resulted in defining five major groups, divided into 55 subfamilies, with related substrate specificity and mode of regulation. The Hanks and Hunter classification was extended further by Manning et al. and Niedner et al. where the entire PK superfamily was classified into nine groups, 81 families, and 238 subfamilies based on sequence comparison of the catalytic domains as well as sequence similarity and domain structure outside the catalytic domains. Very recently, PKs from 25 plant species were classified into nine main groups and 115 families. The defined groups included AGC, CAMKs, CK1, CMGC, STE, TK, TKL, plant-specific, and `other’. Each plant PK repertoire or kinome is significantly larger in size than that of other eukaryotes, including those residents in animal genomes. The dramatic expansion of plant kinomes over other eukaryotes may be the result of recent duplication events and a high retention rate of duplicates. Several studies have indicated that extensive expansion of specific PK families such as receptor-like kinase /Pelle has also contributed to the large number of plant PKs. The RLK/Pelle family has expanded at a significantly higher rate than other kinases and in general constitutes more than 60% of the PKs in flowering plants. The large size of this family can be attributed to the expansion