Patent ID: 8058517

Claim:
An oilseed plant comprising: (a) a first recombinant DNA construct comprising: (i) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having delta-8 desaturase activity, wherein the polypeptide has at least 95% amino acid identity, based on the Clustal V method of alignment, when compared to an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:16; (ii) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having delta-8 desaturase activity, wherein the nucleotide sequence has at least 95% sequence identity, based on the BLASTN method of alignment, when compared to a nucleotide sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:15; or (iii) a complement of the nucleotide sequence of (a) or (b), wherein the complement and the nucleotide sequence consist of the same number of nucleotides and are 100% complementary, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence; and (b) at least one additional recombinant DNA construct comprising an isolated polynucleotide, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence, encoding a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of a delta-4 desaturase, a delta-5 desaturase, a delta-6 desaturase, a delta-12 desaturase, a delta-15 desaturase, a delta-17 desaturase, a delta-9 desaturase, a delta-9 elongase, a C 14/16 elongase, a C 16/18 elongase, a C 18/20 elongase and a C 20/22 elongase.