GENES THAT INCREASE THE PRODUCTION OF OIL IN PLANTS, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME

• Main Authors: OHTO, CHIKARA, MITSUKAWA, NORIHIRO, CHATANI, HIROSHI, MATSUI, KYOKO, TAKAGI, MASARU, MURAMOTO, NOBUHIKO, KONDO, SATOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; Japanese
• Published: 11.09.2009
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; 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; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; TRAPPING; VINEGAR; WINE

A transcriptional regulator, having new functions that can increase per-organism material productivity, is used to improve such characteristics of plants. A chimeric protein, which is obtained by fusing a repressor domain and a transcription factor belonging to a transcription factor family comprisi...