| abstract |
A microbial oil having a low pour point, a dielectric fluid produced therefrom, and related methods. Methods and compositions for generating dielectric fluids from lipids produced by microorganisms are provided, including microorganisms that produce oil and methods for growing such microorganisms at low cost. For example, encoding sucrose transporter, sucrose invertase, fructokinase, polysaccharide degrading enzyme, lipid pathway modifying enzyme, fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, desaturase, fatty acyl-CoA / aldehyde reductase, and / or acyl carrier protein Microalgae cells containing foreign genes are useful in the production of dielectric fluids. [Selection figure] None |