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US 10,851,384 B2Granted
Tobacco having altered leaf properties and methods of making and using
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsChengalrayan Kudithipudi, Alec J. Hayes
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Abstract
This disclosure provides tobacco plants having a mutation in PR50 and transgenic tobacco plants containing a PR50 RNAi, and methods of making and using such plants.
Claims19
A tobacco plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous nucleic acid encoding a PR50 polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 3, wherein said tobacco plant exhibits a reduced amount of nicotine relative to a corresponding control tobacco plant lacking said mutation.
Cured leaf from a tobacco plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide sequence having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 3, wherein said cured leaf exhibits a reduced amount of nicotine relative to cured leaf from a corresponding control tobacco plant lacking said mutation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.