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The present. invention provides iransgcnic plants with reduced levels of saturated fauy acid- - the seed oil and methods of making these plants. The transgenic plants developed through this method contain reduced levels of canned fatty acids in seed oil due to expression of a prokaryotic delta-9 desaturase enzyme (i.e. an cnzvtne that introduces is double bonds at theof saturaled fatty acied operably linked tention and retrieval signal sequenceAOne, example of the inventiis a plant. expressing a heterologou-; delta-9 desaturasc enzyme from cvunohacterium Anacysits nidulans which converts lipd-bound 10:0 and 18:0 buy ac.ds into corresponding 16:! and 18:1. in operative linkageNU:51 cndophixmic rcliculum retention and retrieval signal sequence.