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AssigneeSolazyme, Inc.
InventorsDonald E. Trimbur, Chung-Soon Im, Harrison F. Dillon, Anthony G. Day, Scott Franklin, Anna Coragliotti
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The invention provides methods of manufacturing oils and oil-based products such as transportation fuels, industrial chemicals, edible oils, lubricants and plastics using sugar cane, sugar beets, and cane/beet agricultural processing byproducts as a feedstock for bioproduction processes. The disclosed processes utilize oil-bearing microbes as a conversion technology to convert chemical energy produced by sugar cane and sugar beets into energy-containing oils and oil derivatives. Also provided herein are oil-bearing microbes containing one or more exogenous sucrose utilization genes.
A method of cultivating microalgae Chlorella or Prototheca in a culture medium, the microalgae comprising an exogenous gene encoding a secretable sucrose invertase, the method comprising the steps of:
A method of cultivating microalgae Chlorella or Prototheca in a culture medium that comprises sucrose, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for producing triglycerides, the method comprising:
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