Transgenic plants with enhanced growth characteristics

TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS Abstract The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt co...

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Main Authors Unkefer, Pat J, Anderson, Penelope S, Knight, Thomas J
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 06.04.2017
Subjects
BEER
BIOCHEMISTRY
CHEMISTRY
COMPOSITIONS THEREOF
CULTURE MEDIA
ENZYMOLOGY
GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
METALLURGY
MICROBIOLOGY
MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES
MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS
SPIRITS
TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE
VINEGAR
WINE
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Summary:TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS Abstract The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. Transgenic plants engineered to overexpress both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT), and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT +GS double-transgenic plants consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with TO generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.
Bibliography:Application Number: AU20160202733