Auxin Transport Proteins
AssigneeE.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsEmil M. Orozco, JR., Zude Weng, Wesley B. Bruce, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Yong Tao
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Abstract
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an auxin transport protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a substantial portion of the auxin transport protein, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the auxin transport protein in a transformed host cell. The present invention also relates to methods using the auxin transport protein in modulating root development, and in discovering compounds with potential herbicidal activity.
Claims17
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An isolated polynucleotide comprising:
- (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having auxin transport activity, wherein the polypeptide has an amino acid sequence of at least 80% sequence identity, based on the Clustal method of alignment with pairwise alignment default parameters of KTUPLE=1, GAP PENALTY=3, WINDOW=5 and DIAGONALS SAVED=5, when compared to SEQ ID NO:38, or
- (b) the full-length complement of the nucleotide sequence of (a).
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