Method for enhancing the earliness of a plant and/or lowering the content of nitrates stored in the plant
AssigneeInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique
InventorsMichel Vincentz, Franc.cedilla.ois Dorlhac, Yves Chupeau, Jean-Fran.cedilla.ois Morot-Gaudry, Michel Caboche
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Abstract
A method for enhancing plant precocity and/or reducing stored nitrate content of a plant, wherein an over-expression of nitrate reductase is induced in the plant so as to induce an over-expression of nitrate reductase activity therein.
Claims12
Method for enhancing the earliness of a plant and/or lowering the content of nitrates stored in the plant, comprising introducing into the genome of the plant under conditions permitting its expression, a foreign gene coding for nitrate reductase to induce an over expression of nitrate reductase in the plant.
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