Plants having altered amino acid contents and method for the production thereof

US7220899B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• BASF Plant Science Company GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Andreas Reindl · Mannheim, DE
• Peter Geigenberger · Berlin, DE
• Horst-Ekkerhard Neuhaus · Kaiserslautern, DE
• Karlheinz Graeve-Kampfenkel · Hochheim, DE
• Torsten Möhlmann · Bünde, DE
• Joachim Tjaden · Osnabrück, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 5, 2000
• Grant date: May 22, 2007
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07K14/415
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to transformed plants and their descendants, which have altered regulative sequences and/or number of gene copies of the ATP/ADP-translocator-gene in such a manner that they have one or more amino acids simultaneously in altered amounts in comparison with a non-transformed plants. The invention also relates to a method for the production of said plants in addition to their use as crop plants or in the animal feedstuffs industry.