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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
James D. Jones, Chicago, IL (US);
Thomas M. Hohn, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Timothy D. Leathers, Peoria, IL (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/15 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/509 ; C12P 2/300 ; C07H 2/104 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/15 ; C12N 1/500 ; C12N 1/509 ; C12P 2/300 ; C07H 2/104 ;
Abstract
The instant invention is drawn towards transformed strains of effective for the production of lycopene. The transformed strains comprise an expression cassette having three genes encoding, respectively, geranylgeranyl-pyrophosphate synthase, phytoene synthase and phytoene desaturase (i.e. Tri5crtE, Tri5crtB and Tri5crtl). The transformed strains of of the instant invention produce lycopene at levels of up to 0.5 milligrams per gram culture dry weight.