Tobacco plants exhibiting altered photosynthesis and methods of making and using
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsYanxin Shen, Dongmei Xu
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Abstract
This disclosure provides tobacco plants that exhibit altered photosynthesis as well as methods of making and using such plants.
Claims21
A method of making a Nicotiana tabacum plant, comprising:
- inducing mutagenesis in N. tabacum cells to produce mutagenized N. tabacum cells;
- obtaining one or more N. tabacum plants from the mutagenized N. tabacum cells;
- and
- identifying at least one of the N. tabacum plants that comprises a mutated TLA or CAO sequence.
A variety of Nicotiana tabacum, the variety comprising plants having a mutation in an endogenous nucleic acid, the wild type endogenous nucleic acid encoding the TLA or CAO sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 or 26.
A RNA nucleic acid molecule comprising a first nucleic acid between 15 and 500 nucleotides in length and a second nucleic acid between 15 and 500 nucleotides in length, wherein the first nucleic acid has a region of complementarity to the second nucleic acid, wherein the first nucleic acid comprises at least 15 contiguous nucleotides of the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 or 25.
A transgenic Nicotiana tabacum plant comprising a vector, the vector comprising a RNA nucleic acid molecule having a length of 15 to 500 nucleotides and having at least 95% sequence identity to a TLA or CAO nucleic acid shown in SEQ ID NO:
- 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 or 25.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.