PLANTS EXPRESSING DELTA 6-DESATURASE GENES AND OILS FROM THESE PLANTS CONTAINING PUFAS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING UNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS

摘要

The invention relates to an improved method for producing unsaturated fatty acids and to a method for producing triglycerides with an increased unsaturated fatty acid content. The invention also relates to the production of a transgenic organism, preferably a transgenic plant or a transgenic micro-organism, containing increased quantities of unsaturated fatty acids, oils or lipids with DELTA 6-double bonds as a result of the expression of a DELTA -6-desaturase, from moss. The invention also relates to transgenic organisms containing a DELTA 6-desaturase gene, and to the use of the unsaturated fatty acids or triglycerides with an increased unsaturated fatty acid content produced in the method.