National Research Council of Canada

Agrisoma Biosciences Inc.

Agresearch Limited

Elizabeth-France Marillia

David Charles Taylor

Jitao Zou

Steven Fabijanski

Michael Lindenbaum

Ping Fu

Nicholas John Roberts

Somrutai Winichayakul

Richard William Scott

Marissa Roldan

Amy Christina Curran

The present invention relates to transgenic plants comprising a plurality of nucleic acids heterologous to said plant, each of said nucleic acid comprising a coding sequence operably linked to one or more regulatory elements for directing expression of said coding sequence in said plant, said nucleic acid being stably integrated at or adjacent to rDNA sequences, or a seed, organ, tissue, part or cell thereof, or a descendant of said plant, seed, organ, tissue, part or cell; methods of producing the transgenic plants; and methods of producing oil using the transgenic plants.

Production of modified fatty acids in plants through rDNA targeted integration of heterologous genes

The invention provides chimeric DGAT1 proteins comprising: a) at their N-terminal ends, an N-terminal portion of a first DGAT1 protein, and b) at their C-terminal ends, a C-terminal portion of a second DGAT1 protein. The chimeric DGAT proteins show enhanced activity relative to at least one of the first DGAT1 protein and the second DGAT1 protein. The chimeric DGAT proteins of the invention can be expressed in cells to increase cellular lipid accumulation and/or modify the cellular lipid profile. The invention also provides polynucleotides encoding the chimeric DGAT1 proteins, cells and compositions comprising the polynucleotides or chimeric DGAT1 proteins, and methods using the chimeric DGAT1 proteins to produce oil.

Acyltransferase polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods of use

The isolation, purification, characterization and use of a mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDHK) gene fromspp. Methods of regulating fatty acid synthesis, seed oil content, seed size/weight, flowering time, vegetative growth, respiration rate and generation time using the gene and to tissues and plants transformed with the gene. Transgenic plants, plant tissues and plant seeds having a genome containing an introducedDNA, characterized in that the sequence has been introduced in an anti-sense or sense orientation, and a method of producing such plants and plant seeds.

Brassica pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase gene

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