Sugarbeet storage-root-tissue-specific regulon

US6248936A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Rainer Hofgen · Berlin, DE
• Holger Hesse · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 1999
• Grant date: Jun 19, 2001
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8227
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a new regulon which in storage roots of the sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) constitutively expresses the gene which is under its control, such that a transition from anaerobic to aerobic conditions, a transition from normal temperature (appr. 22.degree. C.) to cold temperature (appr. 4.degree. C.) and changing sugar concentrations do not alter the transcription activity of the regulon in the storage root tissue.