Plants which synthesize a modified starch, process for the production thereof and modified starch

US6207880A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• PlantTec Biotechnologies, GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Jens Kossmann · Golm, DE
• Ruth Lorberth · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 1998
• Grant date: Mar 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12P19/04
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Nucleic acid molecules are described encoding a starch granule-bound protein as well as methods and recombinant DNA molecules for the production of transgenic plant cells and plants synthesizing a modified starch with modified viscosity properties and a modified phosphate content. Moreover, the plant cells and plants resulting from those methods as well as the starch obtainable therefrom are described.