Patent ID: 7105721
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: A01H,A23D,C12N,C12Y,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method of producing seed oil containing altered levels of unsaturated fatty acids comprising: (a) transforming a plant cell with a chimeric gene comprising a nucleic acid fragment comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a plant delta-12 desaturase or a part thereof which is useful in antisense inhibition or sense suppression of endogenous delta-12 desaturase activity in a transformed plant wherein said fragment is operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence; (b) growing fertile plants from the transformed plant cell of step (a); (c) screening progeny seeds from the fertile plants of step (b) for the desired levels of unsaturated fatty acids; and (d) processing the progeny seeds of step (c) to obtain seed oil containing altered levels of unsaturated fatty acids.