Pre- and postharvest inhibition of remobilisation of storage compounds

This invention describes a method to prevent sprouting in vegetatively propagated plants such as potato, strawberry, banana and bulbous plants such as onion and bulbous flowers, by transforming a plant or a plant from one of its parental lines with a gene coding for trehalose phosphate synthase. Res...

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Main Authors KRAUSE, KLAUS-PETER, GODDIJN, OSCAR JOHANNES MARIA, TIGELAAR, HENDRIK, VAN DUN, CORNELIS MARIA PETRUS
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 11.01.2003
Edition7
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Summary:This invention describes a method to prevent sprouting in vegetatively propagated plants such as potato, strawberry, banana and bulbous plants such as onion and bulbous flowers, by transforming a plant or a plant from one of its parental lines with a gene coding for trehalose phosphate synthase. Restoration of sprouting is also provided for.
Bibliography:Application Number: TW199887119116