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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2008
Donald E. Trimbur, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Chung-soon Im, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Harrison F. Dillon, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony G. Day, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Franklin, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Anna Coragliotti, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Donald E. Trimbur, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Chung-Soon Im, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Harrison F. Dillon, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony G. Day, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Franklin, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Anna Coragliotti, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Solazyme, Inc., South San Francsico, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides methods of manufacturing oils and oil-based products such as transportation fuels, industrial chemicals, edible oils, lubricants and plastics using sugar cane, sugar beets, and cane/beet agricultural processing byproducts as a feedstock for bioproduction processes. The disclosed processes utilize oil-bearing microbes as a conversion technology to convert chemical energy produced by sugar cane and sugar beets into energy-containing oils and oil derivatives. Also provided herein are oil-bearing microbes containing one or more exogenous sucrose utilization genes.