Patent ID: 9593344
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: C12N

Claim:
1. A plant comprising a plant vegetative tissue comprising five percent or more of dry weight triacylglycerol (TAG) compounds wherein the plant is Arabidopsis thaliana, Beta vulgaris, Brassica napus, miscanthus, camellina , switchgrass, corn, sugarcane, sorghum, Sacharum spontaneum , soybean, sunflower, cotton, or duckweeds which are members of the Lemnoideae; in which a gene encoding a trigalactosyldiacylglycerol (TGD) protein is mutated and either a gene encoding a sugar dependent 1 (SDP1) triacylglycerol lipase is mutated or a gene encoding a peroxisomal transporter 1 (PXA1) protein is mutated, or both, wherein said mutations substantially inactivate said encoded protein, lipase and/or transporter.