Plasmids for the production of transgenic plants that are modified in habit and yield

US5492820A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Institut fur Genbiologische Forschung Berlin GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Sonnewald · Berlin, DE
• Lothar Willmitzer · Kleinmachnow, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 2, 1993
• Grant date: Feb 20, 1996
• Expiry date: Nov 2, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A40/146
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Plasmids that comprise a DNA sequence coding for a protein that modifies the metabolism of soluble sugars, for example, an inorganic pyrophosphatase agent and plant cells comprising those plasmids, for the production of transgenic plants that are modified in habit and yield arc described, the plants being modified in habit by the transfer and the expression of genes that intervene in sugar metabolism or sugar distribution inside a plant.