Patent ID: 11959087
Assignee: THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
Field: Biotechnology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  Y | IPC C

Claim 8:
9. A method of obtaining a transgenic plant comprising: (i) transforming plants with a recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising an expression cassette which comprises a heterologous promoter operably linked to an inhibitory polynucleotide that targets an endogenous BADC1 gene in the transgenic plant to reduce or eliminate expression of a BADC1 protein encoded by the endogenous BADC1 gene, wherein the inhibitory polynucleotide encodes an anti-sense RNA or an RNAi directed towards said endogenous BADC1 gene, wherein said BADC1 protein has at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein said BADC1 protein lacks the conserved biotinylation motif and biotinyl lysine residue of a BCCP1 protein; and (ii) selecting a transgenic plant from the transgenic plants of step (i) that exhibits increase in the activity levels of the committed step for de novo fatty acid biosynthesis, acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) and increase in fatty acid and/or triacylglycerol production in said transgenic plant as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking said recombinant nucleic acid molecule and grown under identical growth conditions.