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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Shuhua (Joshua) Yuan, College Station, TX (US);
Donald Ort, Urbana, IL (US);
Joseph Chappell, Lexington, KY (US);
Xinguang Zhu, Urbana, IL (US);
Hong Ma, College Station, TX (US);
Yong Kyoung Kim, College Station, TX (US);
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL (US);
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods of producing biological products or increasing production of such products through expression in a plant of a bacterial or plant glycolate catabolic cycle gene, such as glycolate dehydrogenease (GDH), glycolate oxidase (GO), or malate synthase (MS) in combination with a plant gene, such as farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS), squalene synthase (SQS), or PLAS. Also provided are plants, plants parts and compositions produced through methods of the present invention. The invention leads to two to five fold increase of end product yield.