Modulating plant carbon levels
AssigneeCeres, Inc.
InventorsRichard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Joon-Hyun Park, Boris Jankowski, Steven Craig Bobzin
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Abstract
Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) carbon levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding carbon-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased carbon levels.
Claims6
A method of increasing the level of carbon in a plant, said method comprising a) introducing into a plant cell an isolated nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having 90 percent or greater sequence identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:40, said polypeptide having proton-dependent oligopeptide transport activity;
- and b) selecting a plant produced from said plant cell that expresses the nucleotide sequence and has an increase in the level of carbon in a tissue of said plant without a statistically significant decrease in the level of nitrogen in said tissue as compared to the levels of carbon and nitrogen in corresponding tissue of a corresponding control plant that does not comprise said nucleic acid.
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