P-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferases
AssigneeWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
InventorsJohn Ralph, Steven D. Karlen, Rebecca Anne Smith, Brian Fox, Emily Beebe, Craig Bingman
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Abstract
The invention is directed to p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes, nucleic acids encoding p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes, and inhibitory nucleic acids adapted to inhibit the expression and/or translation of p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase RNA; expression cassettes, plant cells, and plants that have or encode such nucleic acids and enzymes; and methods of making and using such nucleic acids, enzymes, expression cassettes, cells, and plants.
Claims10
A transgenic plant comprising an isolated nucleic acid molecule, wherein the isolated nucleic acid molecule comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter functional or active in a plant cell, and wherein expression of the polypeptide in the transgenic plant increases percent of monolignol coumarates in the transgenic plant's lignin as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking the isolated nucleic acid molecule and grown under identical conditions.
A method of obtaining a plant having increased content of monolignol coumarates in lignin within the plant, comprising the steps:
- (i) stably transforming plant cells with an isolated nucleic acid molecule, wherein the isolated nucleic acid molecule comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter functional or active in a plant cell;
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- (ii) regenerating a transformed plant with the stably transformed plant cells from step (i), wherein genome of the regenerated transgenic plant is stably transformed with the isolated nucleic acid molecule, and wherein the regenerated transgenic plant has increased percent of monolignol coumarates in the regenerated transgenic plant's lignin as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking the isolated nucleic acid molecule and grown under identical conditions.
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