Plant caffeic acid 3-0-methyltransferase homologs

US6329204A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Rebecca E. Cahoon · Webster Groves, US
• J. Antoni Rafalski · Wilmington, US
• Jennie Shen · Wilmington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2001
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8243
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the protein involved in phenylpropanoid metabolism in a transformed host cell.