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US 8,524,978 B2Granted
Composition for production of plant body having improved sugar content, and use thereof
AssigneeJapan Science and Technology Agency
InventorKenichi Ogawa
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Abstract
The composition, in accordance with the present invention, for producing a plant body having an improved sugar content includes glutathione, a polynucleotide encoding γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase, or a polynucleotide encoding glutathione-binding plastid type fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase. The composition preferably includes oxidized glutathione. This allows provision of a composition for easily producing a plant body having an improved sugar content.
Claims1
A method for producing a plant with a higher sugar content relative to a corresponding wild strain or untreated plant, the method comprising the steps of:
- introducing an effective amount of polynucleotide encoding a γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase into a plant, so as to produce a transgenic plant;
- cultivating the transgenic plant under conditions suitable for growth;
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- comparing the sugar content of fruit of the plant to fruit of the wild strain to indicate that the sugar content of the transgenic plant is increased.
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