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AssigneeCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
InventorsQing Liu, Allan Graham Green, Surinder Pal Singh
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The specification relates to plants and their seeds and oil obtained therefrom, and to methods of producing same comprising oil having modified fatty acid compositions, such that 28% to 80% of the total fatty acid content in the seedoil is palmitic acid, 0% to 16% is palmitoleic acid, 0% to 4% is C16:2 fatty acid, 3% to 33% is stearic acid, 1% to 40% is oleic acid, 4% to 50% is linoleic acid and 0% to 10% is linolenic acid. The specification describes nucleic acid molecules encoding RNA capable of conferring these properties, in particular, RNA that inhibits expression of an oil biosynthesis gene encoding KASII in seeds of a plant. Genetic constructs and cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules are also described and claimed.
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A process for producing oilseed oil, comprising the steps of:
Oilseed, other than Arabidopsis thaliana seed, which has a reduced level relative to wild-type oilseed of ketoacyl-ACP synthase II (KASII), wherein said reduced level results from decreasing the expression of a gene encoding KASII, wherein in the oil of the oilseed
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