Inventors:
- College Station TX, US
Donald Ort - Urbana IL, US
Joseph Chappell - Lexington KY, US
Xinguang Zhu - Urbana IL, US
Hong Ma - College Station TX, US
Yong Kyoung Kim - College Station TX, US
Assignee:
The Texas A&M University System - College Station TX
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Urbana IL
University of Kentucky - Lexington KY
International Classification:
C12P 7/62
C12P 5/00
US Classification:
800298, 435167, 435135, 44307, 585240, 528361
Abstract:
The present invention provides methods of producing biological products or increasing production of such products through expression in a plant of a bacterial or plant glycolate catabolic cycle gene, such as glycolate dehydrogenease (GDH), glycolate oxidase (GO), or malate synthase (MS) in combination with a plant gene, such as farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS), squalene synthase (SQS), or PLAS. Also provided are plants, plants parts and compositions produced through methods of the present invention. The invention leads to two to five fold increase of end product yield.
