Promoter regulating circadian clock function and photoperiodism

US6433251B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• The State of Oregon Acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education on Behalf of the University of Oregon · US

Inventors

• D. Ry Wagner · Burns, US
• Karen A. Hicks · Springfield, US
• Michelle Z. Spence · Olympia, US
• Henriette Foss · Eugene, US
• Xing Liang Liu · Nanhu, CN
• Michael F. Covington · Oakland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 24, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 13, 2002
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A40/146
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Nucleic acid molecules that encode a plant promoter involved in photoperiodism and circadian rhythms are disclosed. These molecules may be introduced into plants in order to alter the photoperiodic and/or circadian clock-based gene expression of the plants.