Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same
AssigneeBASF Plant Science GmbH
InventorsWillem Broekaert, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Valerie Frankard
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AssigneeBASF Plant Science GmbH
InventorsWillem Broekaert, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Valerie Frankard
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The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Yield Enhancing Protein (YEP). The YEP is selected from a Vacuolar Processing Enzyme (VPE) or a CCA1-like polypeptide or a SAP-like polypeptide or a Seed Yield Promoting Factor 1 (SYPF1) polypeptide or a Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) activase (RCA) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a YEP, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown YEP-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.
A method for enhancing a yield-related trait in a plant relative to a control plant, comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a SAP-like polypeptide.
An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising:
An isolated polypeptide comprising:
A construct comprising:
A method for the production of a transgenic plant having increased yield or increased seed yield, relative to a corresponding control plant, comprising:
A transgenic plant having increased yield or increased seed yield, relative to a corresponding control plant, resulting from increased expression of a nucleic acid encoding a SAP-like polypeptide, or a transgenic plant cell derived from said transgenic plant.
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