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

• Main Authors: LOUWERS, MARIEKE, VANDENABEELE, STEVEN, MARTIN, JEROME, VAN CAMP, WIM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.09.2014
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FISHING; FORESTRY; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NEW PLANTS OR PROCESSES FOR OBTAINING THEM; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PLANT REPRODUCTION BY TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; 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; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

A method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP (Growth Related Protein) polypeptide is provided. Plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants, and constructs comprising the GRP-encoding nucleic acid, useful in performing the methods for enhancing yield-related traits in plants are also provided.