Processes for producing lipids
AssigneeCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
InventorsThomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
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A process for feeding an animal, comprising a step of providing to the animal a vegetative plant part from a transformed plant, the vegetative plant part comprising one or more exogenous polynucleotides which encode at least Wrinkled 1 (WRI1) and a fatty acid acyltransferase and having a total non-polar lipid content of at least 10% (w/w dry weight).
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