Patent ID: 7053267

Claim:
A method for obtaining a plant seed having a modified fatty acid saturation, said method comprising: growing a transgenic predominantly unsaturated temperate zone oilseed crop plant species to seed, wherein said plant comprises a recombinant DNA construct integrated into the genome of its cells, wherein said recombinant DNA construct comprises a transcriptional initiation region obtained from a plant gene which is expressed preferentially in plant seed tissue, and wherein said construct provides for a nucleic acid sequence encoding a bacterial or foreign plant fatty acid saturation modifying enzyme to be expressed in said plant seed; and harvesting a plant seed having a modified fatty acid saturation, as compared to the fatty acid saturation of seeds from an untransformed parent of said predominantly unsaturated temperate zone oilseed crop plant species, where said fatty acid saturation modifying enzyme is beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase, wherein said predominantly unsaturated temperate zone oilseed crop plant is selected from the group consisting of corn, soybean, rapeseed, canola, safflower, sunflower, peanut, and cotton.