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Biotechnology

Industrial Oil Products

New Crops for Oils/Feedstock Engineering

Tuesday, May 2, 2023
8:25 AM – 10:30 AM MDT
Room:403

This session will highlight the genetic engineering of pennycress to improve this new oilseed cash cover crop. Research on Camelina sativa, another oilseed crop, uses genomics-driven systems biology approaches to explore natural variations in the plant’s germplasm to identify candidate genes that control important agronomic traits. A talk will discuss how CRISP-Cas9 can be used to change seed acid composition to create new camelina oils. Finally, seed-specific expression of a gene in Brassica carinata showed that the transgenic plants produced a high concentration of very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.

Presentations:

  • 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM MDT
    Developing field pennycress into the new oilseed cash cover crop named CoverCress

    Presenting Author: John Sedbrook – Illinois State University

  • 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM MDT
    Improving camelina oilseed traits by genomics-driven approaches

    Presenting Author: Chaofu Lu, MS, PhD – Montana State University

  • 9:10 AM – 9:30 AM MDT
    Oilseed feedstock and conversion technology co-optimization for sustainable aviation fuel

    Presenting Author: Edgar Cahoon, PhD – University of Nebraska

    Co-Author: Chuhua Jia – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Ashok Jangam – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Jim Barret Floyd – Washington State University

    Co-Author: Tara Nazarenus – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Co-Author: Hongfei Lin – Washington State University

  • 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM MDT
    Strategies for increased seed oil in Camelina

    Presenting Author: Kristi D. Snell, PhD (she/her/hers) – Yield10 Bioscience, Inc.

  • 9:50 AM – 10:10 AM MDT
    Metabolic engineering of new very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids with health-promoting properties in oilseed crop

    Presenting Author: Xiao Qiu, PhD – University of Saskatchewan

    Co-Author: Dauenpen meesapyodsuk – National Research Council of Canada

  • 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM MDT
    Novel triacylglycerol assembly pathway elucidation and its bioengineering for hydroxy fatty acid accumulation in Physaria fendleri and other oilseeds

    Presenting Author: Philip D. Bates, PhD – Washington State University