Patent ID: 8420892

Claim:
A recombinant construct comprising an isolated polynucleotide comprising: (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having delta-9 elongase 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:5; (b) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having delta-9 elongase 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:4 or SEQ ID NO:90; or (c) 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; wherein said isolated polynucleotide of (a) or (b) is operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.