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OwnerPierre Bilodeau, Abdul M. Chaudhury +4inventors
InventorsPierre Bilodeau, Abdul M. Chaudhury, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Anna M.G. Koltunow, Ming Luo, William J. Peacock
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The present invention provides a method of inducing seed development in plants, preferably in the absence of sexual fertilisation, said method comprising inhibiting or preventing the expression of one or more regulatory polypeptides that otherwise prevent asexual seed development in plants. The invention further provides novel genetic sequences. The invention further provides transformed plants having a wide range of novel phenotypes including, but not limited to, the ability to reproroduce asexually, develop seed in the absence of fertilisation, and the ability to produce parthenocarpic fruit or seedless fruit or fruits with soft seed traces such that the fruit are marketable as less seedy than wild-type fruit or seedless. The isolated nucleic acid molecules are further useful in the detectrion of proteins and genetic sequences which interact with the polypeptides encoded by said nucleic acid molecules in the regulation of seed development in plants.
A method of inducing the development of seed in a plant, comprising introducing into said plant or a parent of said plant, genetic material which reduces expression of a gene in one or more female reproductive cells of said plant, wherein said gene hybridizes to SEQ ID NO:6 or a complementary form thereof under stringent conditions, wherein the reduction of expression of the gene is sufficient to induce development of seed in the plant.
A method of producing seedless or soft-seeded fruit in a plant, comprising introducing into said plant or a parent of said plant genetic material which reduces expression of a gene in one or more female reproductive cells of said plant, wherein said gene hybridizes to SEQ ID NO:6 or a complementary form thereof under stringent conditions and wherein the reduction of expression of the gene is sufficient to produce seedless or soft-seeded fruit in the plant.
A plant generated by the process of introducing genetic material to a cell of a plant, which genetic material reduces expression of a gene which hybridizes to SEQ ID NO:6 or a complementary form thereof under stringent conditions and then regenerating a plant from said plant cell.
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