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.
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A process for producing non-polar lipid in a plant part, the process comprising a step of expressing in the plant part 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 plant part that is larger than an additive effect of the individual effects of each of WRI1 and DGAT expressed alone.
A process of feeding an animal, comprising a step of providing to the animal a plant part which comprises 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 plant part that is larger than an additive effect of the individual effects of each of WRI1 and DGAT expressed alone.
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