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US 8,785,616 B2Granted
Constitutive photomorphogenesis 1 (COP1) nucleic acid sequence from Zea mays and its use thereof
AssigneeMonsanto Technology LLC
InventorsNordine Cheikh, Molian Deng, Philip W. Miller, Nanfei Xu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence from a maize plant and the isolated COP1 nucleic acid sequence is named as ZmCOP1. The present invention also relates to a method of using the ZmCOP1 nucleic acid sequence to control the shade avoidance response of a crop plant for high density farming and yield enhancement.
Claims13
A recombinant DNA construct comprising:
- a nucleic acid molecule complementary to a nucleotide sequence encoding all or part of a polypeptide having at least 93% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 13;
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- a heterologous promoter operably linked to said nucleic acid molecule;
- wherein, upon transformation into a plant, the presence of said nucleic acid molecule causes reduction of endogenous COP1 mRNA level.
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