PLANTS HAVING ENHANCED YIELD-RELATED TRAITS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME

• Main Authors: VANDENABEELE, STEVEN, REUZEAU, CHRISTOPHE, FRANKARD, VALERIE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 01.05.2013
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an OsRSZ33 RRM polypeptide or a growth-related protein (GRP) having at least 25% amino acid sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 251 or a ZPR polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an OsRSZ33 RRM polypeptide or a growth-related polypeptide as defined herein or a ZPR polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown OsRSZ33 RRM-encoding nucleic acids or GRP-encoding nucleic acids or a ZPR polypeptide, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.