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US 6,552,249 B1Granted
Plant cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase
AssigneeE.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsRebecca E. Cahoon, Gary M. Fader, J. Antoni Rafalski
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Abstract
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a lignin biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the lignin biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the lignin biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.
Claims11
An isolated polynucleotide comprising:
- (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase activity, wherein the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:8 have at least 92% sequence identity based on the Clustal alignment method, or
- (b) the complement of the nucleotide sequence, wherein the complement contains the same number of nucleotides as the nucleotide sequence, and the complement and the nucleotide sequence are 100% complementary.
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