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US 12,600,978 B2Granted
Process for producing lipids
AssigneeNuseed Global Innovation Ltd.
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.
Claims20
A process for producing extracted lipid, the process comprising the steps of:
- i) extracting lipid from a collection of vegetative plant parts having a total non-polar lipid content of between 5% and 25% (w/w dry weight), the vegetative plant parts comprising one or more exogenous polynucleotides which encode at least Wrinkled 1 (WRI1) and a fatty acid acyltransferase selected from the group consisting of:
- phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (PDAT), monoacylglycerol acyltransferase (MGAT), diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), and glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase (GPAT), and
- ii) recovering the extracted lipid.
A process for producing extracted lipid, the process comprising the steps of:
- (i) extracting lipid from a collection of vegetative plant parts obtained from at least 100 transformed plants grown in a field, the vegetative plant parts comprising one or more exogenous polynucleotides which encode at least Wrinkled 1 (WRI1) and a fatty acid acyltransferase, wherein the vegetative plant parts have an average total non-polar lipid content of between 5% and 25% (w/w dry weight), and
- ii) recovering the extracted lipid.
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