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Title: Increasing the content of long chain fatty acids in seed oil

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1568109
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Provided are plants that express, or overexpress, a pPLAIIIδ protein. Constitutive or seed-specific expression of pPLAIIIδ protein in Arabidopsis increases seed oil content, the amount of C20 and C22 fatty acids, and the amount of C56, C58, and C60 triacylglycerols, effectively resulting in significantly higher oil yield per plant. Use of pPLAIIIδ is therefore an effective biotechnological tool to significantly increase plant yield, including oil, and the amount of high value long chain fatty acids in agricultural and horticultural crops, especially oilseed crops.

Research Organization:
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO (United States); Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
DOE Contract Number:
SC0001295
Assignee:
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO); The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
Patent Number(s):
10,240,163
Application Number:
14/866,125
OSTI ID:
1568109
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 09/25/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (2)

Transformation and foreign gene expression in Brassica species patent May 1998
Phospholipases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them patent-application January 2004

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