Constitutive photomorphogenesis 1 (COP1) nucleic acid sequence from Zea mays and its use thereof
AssigneeMonsanto Technology LLC
InventorsNordine Cheikh, Molian Deng, Philip W. Miller, Nanfei Xu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence from a maize plant and the isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence is named as ZmCOP1. The present invention also relates to a method of using the ZmCOP1 nucleic acid sequence to control the shade avoidance response of a crop plant for high density farming and yield enhancement.
Claims20
A recombinant DNA construct comprising a COP1 nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence that has at least 90% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 15 or SEQ ID NO:
- 17 or encoding a fragment of a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 15 that is functionally equivalent to SEQ ID NO:15, said COP1 nucleotide sequence being operably linked upstream (5′) to a promoter and downstream (3′) to a regulatory element, wherein upon its transformation into a plant said construct causes reduction of functional endogenous COP1 protein level.
A recombinant DNA construct comprising a COP1 nucleotide sequence, wherein the COP1 nucleotide sequence has at least 80% sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:14, SEQ ID NO:16, and SEQ ID NO:18, said COP1 nucleotide sequence being operably linked upstream (5′) to a promoter and downstream (3′) to a regulatory element.
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