METHODS OF PRODUCING INSECT PHEROMONES
Patent, 2021

The present disclosure relates to methods of producing insect pheromone precursors and genetically modified plants capable of producing insect pheromone precursors. The genetically modified plants include a heterologous gene encoding at least one silencing suppressor protein and at least one enzyme selected from the group consisting of a fatty acyl desaturase, a fatty acyl elongase, a fatty acyl reductase, and an acyl-CoA oxidase.

reductase

desaturase

acyl-CoA oxidase

insect pheromones

elongase

Inventor

Christer Löfstedt

Per Hofvander

Baojian Ding

Yihan Xia

Lund University

Honglei Wang

Jarl-Sunesson Carin

E.B. Cahoon

Agenor Mafra-neto

17/169,444

Subject Categories

Microbiology

Plant Biotechnology

Genetics

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6/23/2022