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US 8,809,026 B2Granted
Processes for producing lipids
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 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.
Claims30
A process for producing extracted lipid, the process comprising the steps of:
- i) extracting lipid from a collection of vegetative plant parts comprising one or more exogenous polynucleotides which encode at least Wrinkled 1 (WRI1) and diacylclycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), wherein co-expression of WRI1 and DGAT has an effect on non-polar lipid accumulation in the vegetative plant parts that is larger than an additive effect of the individual effects of each of WRI1 and DGAT expressed alone, and
- ii) recovering the extracted lipid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.