Means and methods for controlling flowering in plants

• Main Authors: FOLLING, MARIANNE, NIELSEN, KLAUS K, GAO, CAIXIA, STORGAARD, MORTEN, DIDION, THOMAS, ANDERSEN, CLAUS H, LENK, INGO, JENSEN, CHRISTIAN SIG, PETERSEN, KLAUS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.09.2008
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEPTIDES; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

Disclosed is a polynucleotide which, when expressed in sense orientation in plants leads to a prevention of flowering, selected from the group consisting of (a) polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2; (b) polynucleotides comprising the coding region of the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1; (c) polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a fragment of the polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide of (a) or (b), wherein said nucleotide sequence when expressed in sense orientation in plants leads to a prevention of flowering; (d) polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence having a sequence identity of at least 50% with a polynucleotide of anyone of (a) to (c) and which when expressed in sense orientation in plants leads to a prevention of flowering; (e) polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence the complementary strand of which hybridizes to the polynucleotide of anyone of (a) to (c), wherein said nucleotide sequence when expressed in sense orientation in plants leads to a prevention of flowering; and (f) polynucleotides comprising a nucleotide sequence that deviates from the nucleotide sequence defined in (e) by the degeneracy of the genetic code.