Patent ID: 8735111

Claim:
A process for producing an industrial product, the process comprising the steps of: i) obtaining a vegetative plant part comprising one or more exogenous polynucleotides which encode at least Wrinkled 1 (WRI1) and diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), wherein co-expression of WRI1 and DGAT has an effect on non-polar lipid accumulation in the vegetative plant part that is larger than an additive effect of the individual effects of each WRI1 and DGAT expressed alone, ii) either a) converting at least some of the lipid in the vegetative plant part of step i) to the industrial product by applying heat, chemical, or enzymatic means, or any combination thereof, to the lipid in situ in the vegetative plant part, or b) physically processing the vegetative plant part of step i), and subsequently or simultaneously converting at least some of the lipid in the processed vegetative plant part to the industrial product by applying heat, chemical, or enzymatic means, or any combination thereof, to the lipid in the processed vegetative plant part, and iii) recovering the industrial product, thereby producing the industrial product.