Patent ID: 6426448
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
Classification: A23D,C11B,C12N

Abstract:
A soybean plant that produces mature seeds in which the total seed fatty acid profile comprises a combined C16:0 and C18:0 content of greater than 21%, a C18:1 content of greater than 60% and a combined C18:2 and C18:3 content of less than 7% wherein said plant is produced by the following steps which comprise:(a) crossing a first parent soybean plant wherein the C18:1 content comprises at least 80% of the total seed fatty acid and the first parent further comprises at least one transgene copy of a soybean nucleic acid fragment encoding a delta-12 desaturase enzyme with a second parent comprising a fasa allele for elevated seed stearic acid content wherein a fasa allele comprises allelic variants thereof; (b) obtaining hybrid seeds from the cross of step (a), germinating said seeds, growing and producing a segregating population of soybean plants through one or more cycles of self-pollination; and (c) selecting the plants from the segregating population of step (b) which produce seeds having said fatty acid profile.