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Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Andrea T. Boruki

Acyl-ACP thioesterase nucleic acids from maize and methods of altering palmitic acid levels in transgenic plants therewith

Patent number: 6331664

Abstract: Genes encoding maize oleoyl-ACP and palmitoyl-ACP thioesterase enzymes have been isolated from maize. These genes, when expressed in a plant, can be used to create transgenic plants having altered palmitic acid oil profiles.

Type: Grant

Filed: April 22, 1998

Date of Patent: December 18, 2001

Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC

Inventors: Beth Rubin-Wilson, Lining Guo, Tom Skokut, Scott Young, Otto Folkerts, Katherine Armstrong, Neil M. Cowen