Acyl-ACP thioesterase nucleic acids from maize and methods of altering palmitic acid levels in transgenic plants therewith

US6331664A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC · US

Inventors

• Beth C. Rubin-Wilson · Indianapolis, US
• Lining Guo · Brownsburg, US
• Tom Skokut · Carmel, US
• Scott A. Young · Midland, US
• Otto Folkerts · Guilford, US
• Katherine Armstrong · Zionsville, US
• Neil M. Cowen · Carlsbad, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 22, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2001
• Expiry date: Apr 22, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N9/16
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Genes encoding maize oleoyl-ACP and palmitoyl-ACP thioesterase enzymes have been isolated from maize. These genes, when expressed in a plant, can be used to create transgenic plants having altered palmitic acid oil profiles.