Qing Liu;James Robertson Petrie;Thomas Vanhercke;Pushkar Shrestha;Surinder Pal Singh
发明人:
James Robertson Petrie,Thomas Vanhercke,Pushkar Shrestha,Qing Liu,Surinder Pal Singh
申请号：
US14834914
公开号：
US20150353863A1
申请日:
2015.08.25
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention relates to methods of producing lipids. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of increasing the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content in a transgenic organism or part thereof. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to the use of an acyltransferase, for example, a monoacylglycerol acyltransferase (MGAT) to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content in plants, plant seed and/or leaves, algae and fungi.
