For the first time, a team led by INRA scientists from Versailles-Grignon, working in collaboration with CNRS and ITERG (1), has succeeded in characterising one of the enzymes involved in triglyceride synthesis in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, by expressing it in baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). These results were published on line on 24 March 2014 in PLOS ONE.