Plant genes encoding trehalose metabolism enzymes
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsPerry G. Caimi, Saverio Carl Falco, Zude Weng
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Abstract
This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding trehalose metabolism enzymes, more specifically, alpha, alpha-trehalase, alpha, alpha-trehalose-phosphate synthase or trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase. The invention also relates to the construction of a recombinant DNA construct encoding all or a portion of the alpha, alpha-trehalase, alpha, alpha-trehalose-phosphate synthase or trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct results in production of altered levels of the alpha, alpha-trehalase, alpha, alpha-trehalose-phosphate synthase or trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase in a transformed host cell.
Claims12
An isolated polynucleotide comprising:
- (a) a nucleoticle sequence encoding a polypeptide having trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase activity, wherein the polypepticie has an amino acid sequence of at least 95% sequence identity when compared to SEQ ID NQ:16, or
- (b) the complement of the nucleotide sequence of (a), wherein the complement and the nucleotide sequence consist of the same number of nucleotides and are 100% complementary.
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