Patent ID: 7244563

Claim:
A method of improving the carcass quality of an animal by supplementing a diet of the animal with animal feed comprising an oil obtained from a seed, wherein the seed is obtained from a plant cell transformed with a chimeric gene comprising an isolated nucleic acid fragment or functionally equivalent subfragment thereof of operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence, further wherein said isolated nucleic acid fragment encodes a plant fatty acid modifying enzyme associated with conjugated double bond formation further wherein said fragment or a functionally equivalent subfragment thereof (a) hybridizes to the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 3 under conditions of moderate stringency; or (b) encodes a polypeptide that has at least 45% sequence identity based on the Clustal method of alignment with a polypeptide set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4 or a functionally equivalent subfragment thereof.