Floral development genes

US7732668B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC. · US

Inventors

• Olga Danilevskaya · Middleton, US
• Pedro Herman · Johnston, US
• Edward Bruggemann · West Des Moines, US
• David Mark Shirbroun · West Des Moines, US
• Evgueni Ananiev · Johnston, US
• Antoni J Rafalski · Wilmington, US
• Hajime Sakai · Newark, US
• Edgar Cahoon · Wilmington, US
• Rebecca E. Cahoon · Webster Groves, US
• Theodore M. Klein · Wilmington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 2006
• Grant date: Jun 8, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 12, 2028

Classification

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

Abstract

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding floral development proteins, more specifically FT, TFL or Ap3 homologs. The invention also relates to the construction of a recombinant DNA construct encoding all or a portion of the floral development proteins, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct results in production of altered levels of the FT, TFL or Ap3 homologs in a transformed host cell.