Compositions and Methods Based on QPT Engineering for Producing Tobacco Plants and Products Having Altered Alkaloid Levels
AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsDong QI, Chengalrayan KUDITHIPUDI, Yanxin SHEN
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods related to tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants.
Claims38
A tobacco plant, or part thereof, comprising one or more mutant alleles in at least one QPT gene selected from the group consisting of QPT1a, QPT1b, QPT2a, and QPT2b, wherein said tobacco plant produces a leaf comprising a nicotine level less than the nicotine level of a leaf from a control tobacco plant not having said one or more mutant alleles when grown and processed under comparable conditions.
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