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US 8,735,111 B2Granted
Processes for producing hydrocarbon products
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 producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from non-polar lipids in a vegetative plant part. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
Claims24
A process for producing an industrial product, the process comprising the steps of:
- i) obtaining a vegetative plant part comprising one or more exogenous polynucleotides which encode at least Wrinkled 1 (WRI1) and diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), wherein co-expression of WRI1 and DGAT has an effect on non-polar lipid accumulation in the vegetative plant part that is larger than an additive effect of the individual effects of each WRI1 and DGAT expressed alone,
- ii) either
- a) converting at least some of the lipid in the vegetative plant part of step i) to the industrial product by applying heat, chemical, or enzymatic means, or any combination thereof, to the lipid in situ in the vegetative plant part, or
- b) physically processing the vegetative plant part of step i), and subsequently or simultaneously converting at least some of the lipid in the processed vegetative plant part to the industrial product by applying heat, chemical, or enzymatic means, or any combination thereof, to the lipid in the processed vegetative plant part, and
- iii) recovering the industrial product, thereby producing the industrial product.
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