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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2005
Petra Cirpus, Mannheim, DE;
Jörg Bauer, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Thorsten Zank, Mannheim, DE;
Ernst Heinz, Hamburg, DE;
Petra Cirpus, Mannheim, DE;
Jörg Bauer, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Thorsten Zank, Mannheim, DE;
Ernst Heinz, Hamburg, DE;
BASF Plant Science GmbH, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for production of unsaturated ω-3-fatty acids and to a process for production of triglycerides with an elevated content of unsaturated fatty acids, especially of ω-3-fatty acids having more than three double bonds. The invention relates to the production of a transgenic organism, preferably of a transgenic plant or of a transgenic microorganism, with an elevated content of unsaturated ω-3-fatty acids, oils or lipids having ω-3-double bonds as the result of the expression of an ω-3-desaturase from fungi of the family Pythiaceae such as the genus, for example of the genus and species