Patent 7888560 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a transcription factor. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the transcription factor, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of accumulated oil in a transformed host cell.