Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Plant – seedling – plant seed – or plant part – per se – Higher plant – seedling – plant seed – or plant part
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-23
2011-08-23
McElwain, Elizabeth (Department: 1638)
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Plant, seedling, plant seed, or plant part, per se
Higher plant, seedling, plant seed, or plant part
C554S009000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08003855
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to plant fatty acyl hydroxylases. Methods to use conserved amino acid or nucleotide sequences to obtain plant fatty acyl hydroxylases are described. Also described is the use of cDNA clones encoding a plant hydroxylase to produce a family of hydroxylated fatty acids in transgenic plants. In addition, the use of genes encoding fatty acid hydroxylases or desaturases to alter the level of lipid fatty acid unsaturation in transgenic plants is described.
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Boddupalli Sekhar S.
Broun Pierre
Somerville Chris
van de Loo Frank
Carnegie Institution of Washington
McElwain Elizabeth
Monsanto Company, Inc.
Morgan & Lewis & Bockius, LLP
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