University of California

Carmel—haifa University Economic Corp Ltd.

United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Assaf Distelfeld

Jorge Dubcovsky

Tzion Fahima

Cristobal Uauy

Ann E Blechl

Daolin Fu

An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes a polypeptide comprising both a steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer (START) domain and a kinase domain is provided, as well as plant cells and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acid molecule, said transgenic plants being resistant to plant diseases.

Kinase-start gene conferring resistance to plant disease and transgenic plants comprising it

The present invention provides wheat NAC nucleic acids and proteins that modulate grain protein content and senescence in plants. Overexpression of a NAC coding sequence can accelerate senescence and increase grain protein content and inhibition of expression can delay senescence. The invention also provides methods of using the nucleic acids to produce transgenic plants with altered grain protein content or senescence.

NAC from wheat for increasing grain protein content

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Kiryat Tivon, Israel

Assaf Distelfeld