Publication number: 20110252507
Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the use of plants as bioreactors for the production of molecules having useful properties such as inter alia polymers, metabolites, proteins, pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. More particularly, the present invention contemplates the use of grasses, and even more particularly C4 grasses, such as sugarcane, for the production of a range of compounds such as, for example, polyhydroxyalkanoates, pHBA, vanillin, indigo, adipic acid, 2-phenylethanol, 1,3-propanediol, sorbitol, fructan polymers and lactic acid as well as other products including, inter alia, other plastics, silks, carbohydrates, therapeutic and nutraceutic proteins and antibodies. The present invention further extends to transgenic plants and, in particular, transgenic C4 grass plants, capable of producing the compounds noted above and other products, and to methods for generating such plants.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 13, 2010
Publication date:
October 13, 2011
Applicants:
The University of Queensland, BSES Limited
Inventors:
Stevens Michael Brumbley, Matthew Peter Purnell, Barrie Fong Chong, Lars Arved Petrasovits, Lars Keld Nielsen, Richard Bruce McQualter