Nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes from wheat which are involved in starch synthesis

US6307125A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst Schering Agrevo GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Martina Block · Bonn, DE
• Horst Lorz · Hamburg, DE
• Stephanie Lutticke · Hamburg, DE
• Lennart Walter · Glückstadt, DE
• Claus Frohberg · Kleinmachnow, DE
• Jens Kossmann · Golm, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 19, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 19, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8245
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding enzymes which are involved in the starch synthesis in plants. These enzymes are starch synthases from wheat. The invention further relates to vectors and host cells containing said nucleic acid molecules, in particular transformed plant cells and plants regenerated from these cells, which exhibit an increased or a reduced activity of the described starch synthases.