Method for increasing storage lipid content in plant seed
US5914449A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 30, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jun 22, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 30, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC12Y207/0104
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
In order to obtain a crop which provides an increased storage lipid content in its seed, the activity of cytosolic pyruvate kinase of a seed is substantially lowered as compared with the endogenous activity of pyruvate kinase in the plant seed. Preferably, the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase is substantially lowered as compared with the endogenous activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in the seed. Thus the storage lipid content in the plant seed is increased.
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