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US 7,622,658 B2Granted
Compositions and methods for altering tocotrienol content
AssigneeE.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsEdgar B. Cahoon, Sean J. Coughlan, Rebecca E. Cahoon, Karlene H. Butler
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Abstract
The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides that alter tocotrienol content in seeds. The invention further provides expression cassettes, host cells and transformed plants containing the nucleic acids. The present invention further provides methods for altering tocotrienol content in seeds.
Claims20
An isolated polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of:
- a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide that alters tocotrienol content, wherein the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide and the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
- 4 have at least 95% sequence identity;
- b) a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to the nucleotide sequence of a), wherein the complement and the nucleotide sequence contain the same number of nucleotides and are 100% complementary;
- c) a nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 3 and
- d) a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 4.
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