Early flowering plants
AssigneeRegents of the University of Minnesota
InventorMichael David Marks
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Abstract
This document relates to materials and methods for generating early flowering oilseed (e.g., pennycress) plants. For example, oilseed plants (e.g., modified oilseed plants) having one or more modifications in a polypeptide involved in early flowering (e.g., early flowering six (ELF6)), as well as materials and methods for making and using early flowering oilseed plants are provided.
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An oilseed plant, wherein said oilseed plant flowers early as compared to a corresponding wild type oilseed plant, wherein said oilseed plant comprises a modification in an early flowering six (ELF6) gene, and wherein said modified ELF6 gene encodes a modified ELF6 polypeptide.
A method for generating an oilseed plant that flowers early as compared to a corresponding wild type oilseed plant, the method comprising:
- modifying an early flowering six (ELF6) gene in the oilseed plant genome, wherein said modified ELF6 gene encodes a modified ELF6 polypeptide,
- wherein said modified ELF6 polypeptide is effective to cause early flowering in said oilseed plant.
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