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US 7,351,565 B2Granted
Plant caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase homologs
AssigneeE.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsRebecca E. Cahoon, J. Antoni Rafalski, Jennie B. Shen
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Abstract
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism in a transformed host cell.
Claims11
An isolated polynucleotide comprising:
- (a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having the activity of caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase, wherein the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:12 have at least 95% sequence identity based on the Clustal alignment method, or
- (b) the complement of the full length nucleotide sequence.
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