Inventors:
John Booth - Boothwyn PA, US
Rebecca Cahoon - Wilmington DE, US
William Hitz - Wilmington DE, US
Anthony Kinney - Wilmington DE, US
Narendra Yadav - Chadds Ford PA, US
International Classification:
C12Q001/68, C07H021/04, C12N009/04, A01H005/00, C12N005/04
US Classification:
435/190000, 435/069100, 435/419000, 435/320100, 536/023200, 800/281000, 435/006000
Abstract:
An isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a diverged delta-9 fatty acid desaturase is disclosed. Also the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the diverged delta-9 fatty acid desaturase is disclosed, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the diverged delta-9 fatty acid desaturase in a transformed host cell.