US 2014/0237687 A1 · Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a PATL (PATELLIN) polypeptide, a PRP38 (Precursor RNA Processing factor 38) polypeptide, an ADA2 (Adaptor 2) polypeptide, a GATA-like polypeptide, or a WD40 repeat (WDR) 23-like polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a PATL polypeptide, a PRP38 polypeptide, an ADA2 polypeptide, a GATA-like polypeptide, or a WDR23-like polypeptide, which plants have improved yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides nucleic acids and constructs useful in the methods of the invention.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants relative to control plants, comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding:

a) a PRP38 polypeptide,
b) an ADA2 polypeptide and optionally selecting for plants having enhanced yield-related traits,
c) a GATA-like polypeptide, wherein said GATA-like polypeptide belongs to subfamily II of GATA transcription factors and comprises a GATA domain, or
d) a WDR23-like polypeptide, which WDR23-like polypeptide comprises a domain having at least 65%, 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 98%, 99% or more sequence identity to a Conserved Domain (CD) comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
271, and optionally selecting for plants having increased yield-related traits.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/175,402Filed 7 Feb 2014

Priority

EP 07121546.126 Nov 2007

Published

21 Aug 2014

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

C12N 15/8261
Phenotypically and genetically modified plants via recombinant DNA technology: with agronomic traits, e.g. crop yield
C07K 14/415
Peptides having more than 20 amino acids; Gastrins; Somatostatins; Melanotropins; Derivatives thereof: from plants
Y02A 40/146
In agriculture: genetically Modified [GMO] plants, e.g. transgenic plants
C12N
Microorganisms or enzymes

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Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same

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Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and a Method for Making the Same

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Claims19