Generation of plants with altered protein, fiber, or oil content
AssigneeAgrigenetics, Inc.
InventorsJohn P. Davies, Hein Tsoeng (Medard) Ng, D. Ry Wagner
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an IMQ nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.
Claims23
A transgenic plant, comprising a plant transformation vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule that encodes an IMQ (Improved Meal Quality) polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 100, or an IMQ polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 100, whereby the transgenic plant has an improved meal quality phenotype, relative to control plants.
A method of producing an improved meal quality phenotype in a plant, said method comprising:
- a) introducing into progenitor cells of the plant a plant transformation vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule that encodes an IMQ polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 100, or an IMQ polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 95% identical to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 100, and
- b) growing the transformed progenitor cells to produce a transgenic plant, wherein the nucleic acid molecule is expressed, and the transgenic plant exhibits an improved meal quality phenotype relative to control plants,
- thereby producing the improved meal quality phenotype in the plant.
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