Omega-9 quality Brassica juncea
AssigneeDow AgroSciences LLC
InventorsVan Leonard Ripley, Steven Arnold Thompson, Zoe Christina Ehlert
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Abstract
The invention relates to improved Brassica species, including Brassica juncea, improved oil and meal from Brassica juncea, methods for generation of such improved Brassica species, and methods for selection of Brassica lines. Further embodiments relate to seeds of Brassica juncea comprising an endogenous oil having increased oleic acid content and decreased linolenic acid content relative to presently existing commercial cultivars of Brassica juncea, seeds of Brassica juncea having traits for increased oleic acid content and decreased linolenic acid content in seed oil stably incorporated therein, and one or more generations of progeny plants produced from said seeds.
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A Brassica juncea seed having an endogenous fatty acid content comprising at least 70.0% oleic acid by weight and less than 3.0% linolenic acid by weight.
A method of producing a Brassica juncea seeds have an endogenous fatty acid content comprising at least 70.0% oleic acid by weight and less than 3.0% linolenic acid by weight, comprising:
- introducing into a Brassica juncea plant, through traditional crossing methods, one or more nucleic acid sequences selected from the group consisting of a mutated fad2a nucleic acid sequence, a mutated fad2b nucleic acid sequence, a mutated fad3a nucleic acid sequence, and a mutated fad3b nucleic acid sequence.
Brassica juncea seeds, said seeds having one or more non-recombinant fad2 and fad3 genes from one or more genomic components of a Brassica aa and/or Brassica bb genome, said seeds having a fatty acid content comprising at least 70.0% oleic acid by weight and less than 3.0% linolenic acid by weight.
Seeds of a Brassica juncea cultivar having, on average, an endogenous oil content which averages, across the crop, at least 70.0% oleic acid by weight and less than 3.0% linolenic acid by weight.
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