Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having reduced or eliminated suckers
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsDongmei Xu, Jesse Frederick, Chengalrayan Kudithipudi, Yanxin Shen, James Strickland, Jaemo Yang
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides the identification of genes involved in sucker growth in tobacco. Also provided are promoters that are preferentially active in tobacco axillary buds. Also provided are modified tobacco plants comprising reduced or no sucker growth. Also provided are methods and compositions for producing modified tobacco plants comprising reduced or no sucker growth.
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A modified tobacco plant comprising reduced suckers compared to a control tobacco plant of the same variety when grown under comparable conditions, wherein the modified tobacco plant comprises a transgene encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical or similar to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 80 operably linked to a promoter comprising a nucleic acid sequence at least 90% identical to a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:
- 148 and 157.
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