Engineered regulator for improved plant oil yield
AssigneeNanyang Technological University
InventorsYonggui Gao, Wei Ma, Zhu Qiao, Que Kong
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Abstract
The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides or polypeptides that lead to improved plant oil yields. Disclosed herein is an isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide that is distinguished from a wild-type Wrinkledt polypeptide by at least one amino acid substitution in the wild-type Wrinkledt amino acid sequence. In an embodiment, the at least one amino acid substitution comprises an amino acid substitution at a position corresponding to position 74 as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. In another embodiment, the substitution at position 74 is an amino acid substitution to a positively charged residue, wherein the positively charged residue is arginine or lysine.
Claims11
An isolated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide that is distinguished from a wild-type Wrinkled1 polypeptide by at least one amino acid substitution in the wild-type Wrinkled1 amino acid sequence, wherein the amino acid sequence of the wild-type Wrinkled1 polypeptide has at least 95% identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 1 and wherein the at least one amino acid substitution comprises an amino acid substitution of arginine or lysine at a position corresponding to position 74 in SEQ ID NO:
- 1, the polypeptide increases the oil content in a plant.
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