Methods for altering organ mass in plants
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of California
InventorsRobert L. Fischer, Yukiko Mizukami
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Abstract
The invention provides methods of altering organ mass, controlling fertility and enhancing asexual reproduction in plants through the modulation of plant growth and cell proliferation. The methods involve producing transgenic plants comprising a recombinant expression cassette containing a modified ANT nucleic acid linked to a plant promoter.
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A method of increasing cell proliferation in a plant, the method comprising introducing into the plant an expression cassette containing a plant promoter operably linked to an ANT nucleic acid encoding a truncated ANT polypeptide having no more than about 500 amino acids, said truncated ANT polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of positions 281–451 of SEQ ID NO:2;
- and selecting plants with increased size or mass when compared to a wild-type plant.
A recombinant expression cassette comprising plant promoter operably linked to an ANT nucleic acid encoding a truncated ANT polypeptide having no more than about 500 amino acids, said truncated ANT polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of positions 281–451 of SEQ ID NO:2.
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