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AssigneeAltria Client Services LLC
InventorsChengalrayan Kudithipudi, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Nazmul Bhuiyan, Raja Payyavula, Yanxin Shen, Dongmei Xu
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The present disclosure provides composition and methods for improving leaf quality of low-alkaloid tobacco plants. Also provided are the identification and genetic engineering of target genes (Leaf Quality Genes) for producing 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.
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Cured tobacco material from a modified tobacco plant, wherein the modified tobacco plant comprises a recombinant nucleic acid construct comprising a heterologous constitutive promoter operably linked to a polynucleotide having a nucleic acid sequence at least 98% identical to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
A tobacco product comprising tobacco material from a modified tobacco plant, wherein the modified tobacco plant comprises a recombinant nucleic acid construct comprising a heterologous constitutive promoter operably linked to a polynucleotide having a nucleic acid sequence at least 98% identical to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
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