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US 5,689,055 AGranted
Plants having modified response to ethylene
AssigneeCalifornia Institue of Technology
InventorsElliott M. Meyerowitz, Caren Chang, Anthony B. Bleecker
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AssigneeCalifornia Institue of Technology
InventorsElliott M. Meyerowitz, Caren Chang, Anthony B. Bleecker
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The invention includes transformed plants having at least one cell transformed with a modified ETR nucleic acid. Such plants have a phenotype characterized by a decrease in the response of at least one transformed plant cell to ethylene as compared to a plant not containing the transformed plant cell. Tissue and/or temporal specificity for expression of the modified ETR nucleic acid is controlled by selecting appropriate expression regulation sequences to target the location and/or time of expression of the transformed nucleic acid. The plants are made by transforming at least one plant cell with an appropriate modified ETR nucleic acid, regenerating plants from one or more of the transformed plant cells and selecting at least one plant having the desired phenotype.
A tomato plant comprising plant cells transformed with a modified ETR nucleic acid comprising the modification of a codon of an ETR nucleic acid to substitute or delete an amino acid residue within the 313 N-terminal portion of the encoded ETR protein, wherein said ETR protein is at least 60% homologous and said N-terminal portion is at least 70% homologous to the ETR protein sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana as set forth in Seq. ID NO. 3, and wherein said tomato plant has a phenotype characterized by a decrease in response of said transformed plant cells to ethylene as compared to a wild-type tomato plant cells not containing said modified ETR nucleic acid.
A modified ETR nucleic acid comprising the modification of a codon of an ETR nucleic acid to substitute or delete an amino acid residue within the 313 amino acid N-terminal portion of the encoded ETR protein, wherein said ETR protein is at least 60% homologous and said N-terminal portion is at least 70% homologous to the ETR protein sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana as set forth in Seq. ID No. 3.
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