Plants having increased yield, biomass, and stress tolerance
AssigneeAferna, Inc.
InventorsYe Fu, Jon Schmuke
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Abstract
The present invention is directed towards a transgenic plant that has an increased biomass, yield and/or abiotic stress tolerance. In particular, the present invention is directed to a transgenic plant or plant cell in which a nucleic acid molecule encoding an RNA demethylase FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated) protein is introduced. Also provided by the disclosure are methods of producing the plants with increased biomass, yield and/or abiotic stress tolerance.
Claims17
A plant comprising plant cells comprising a nucleic acid molecule encoding a fat mass and obesity-associated factor (FTO) gene, wherein the expression of the said nucleic acid molecule results in one or more of increased yield, biomass, growth rate, drought tolerance and abiotic stress tolerance relative to a plant of same variety lacking the nucleic acid molecule encoding the FTO gene.
A method of generating a modified plant comprising increased yield, growth rate, biomass, vigor, oil content, seed yield, fiber yield, fiber quality, fiber length, photosynthetic capacity, nitrogen use efficiency, drought tolerance and/or abiotic stress tolerance as compared to a wild type plant of the same variety, the method comprising
- (a) genetically modifying a plant cell with an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence with at least 80% identity to the sequence selected from the group comprising any one of SEQ ID NOs:
- 6-30, and 39-71, and
- (b) regenerating the modified plant from said plant cell modified with art exogenous polynucleotide.
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