Domestication of a legume plant
AssigneeBetterseeds Ltd
InventorsIdo MARGALIT, Tal SHERMAN, Shira COREM
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to conferring desirable agronomic traits in Legume plants. More particularly, the current invention pertains to producing Legume plants with improved traits by manipulating genes controlling plant architecture.
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A method for producing a modified Peanut plant exhibiting at least one improved domestication trait, wherein said method comprises steps of introducing by targeted genome editing a loss of function mutation in a Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) SELF PRUNING (SP) gene, said improved domestication trait is relative to a corresponding Peanut plant lacking the loss of function mutation.
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