Methods for improving seed characteristics
US7189889B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 30, 2002 |
| Grant date | Mar 13, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 31, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A40/146
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Methods are provided for altering grain characteristics by introducing into plants, isolated nucleic acid molecules that can be used to produce transgenic plants characterized by altered number, type, or configuration of aleurone cells within the seed. Also provided are isolated nucleic acids that encode maize dek1 proteins, vectors capable of expressing such nucleic acid molecules, host cells containing such vectors, and polypeptides encoded by such nucleic acids.
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