Transformed plant and flowering regulation method using flowering-inducing gene
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkari Nakasone, Yasuyo Shimamoto, Madoka Abe, Satoshi Kondo, Sumire Fujiwara, Tomoko Niki, Kaoru Suzuki, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Yoshimi Nakano
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Abstract
Novel sugarcane-derived flowering-inducing genes each encoding a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or 4 (the ScFT6 gene and the ScZCN16 gene), by which the flowering time is accelerated more slowly than conventionally known flowering-inducing genes, are provided.
Claims6
A transformed plant or transformed plant cell, wherein a flowering-inducing gene encoding the following protein (a) or (b) has been introduced thereinto or which an expression of the flowering-inducing gene present as an endogenous gene has been enhanced:
- (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 2;
- (b) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence having 95% or more identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and having ability to induce flowering.
A flowering induction method, comprising introducing an expression vector comprising a flowering-inducing gene encoding the following protein (a) or (b):
- (a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 2;
- (b) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence having 95% or more identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and having ability to induce flowering.
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