Patent 7608443 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an LPAAT isozyme is disclosed. Construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the LPAAT isozyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the LPAAT isozyme in a transformed host cell is also disclosed.