Materials and method for modifying a biochemical component in a plant
AssigneeIowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsLing Li, Eve Syrkin Wurtele
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Abstract
A method of modifying the amount of at least one biochemical component in a plant comprising expressing Qua-Quine Starch (QQS) in the plant, the wild-type of which does not express QQS; a transgenic plant, or part thereof, which comprises and expresses QQS as a transgene and in which the amount of at least one biochemical component is modified; a tissue culture of regenerable cells of the transgenic plant; a vector comprising a nucleotide sequence, which encodes the coding sequence of QQS, operably linked to a non-native promoter, which promotes expression of the nucleotide sequence in a plant, which is other than Arabidopsis; and a method of producing a food or industrial product from a plant.
Claims20
A transgenic plant or part thereof which comprises and expresses a non-native Qua-Quine Starch (QQS) protein that has at least 90% identity to SEQ ID NO:
- 2 and in which at least the protein content is higher than the protein content in a corresponding wild-type (WT) plant or corresponding WT part thereof which does not express the QQS protein.
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