Patent ID: 9611441
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: C11B,C12N,C12P,Y02P

Claim:
1. A process for producing oil, lipid or fatty acids containing unsaturated fatty acids, comprising: obtaining seeds of a transgenic plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide with Δ6-desaturase activity; and b) extracting oil, lipid or fatty acids from the seeds, wherein said nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of: i) a nucleic acid comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; ii) a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and iii) a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.