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.
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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, and wherein the plant part further comprises a reduced level of TAG lipase relative to a corresponding wild-type plant part.
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), diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), and oleosin.
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