Monsanto Technology LLC

Monsanto Company

Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

Balasulojini Karunanandaa

Henry E Valentin

Ganesh M Kishore

Barry S Goldman

Mark Scott Abad

Ming Hao

Tyamagondlu V Venkatesh

Karen Gabbert

Sasha Preuss

Beth Savidge

Alison Van Eenennaam

Elena A Rice

Mylavarapu Venkatramesh

Stephen M Duff

Charlene Levering

Eric Aasen

Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra

Linda L Lutfiyya

John R LeDeaux

Vijay K Sharma

Daniel J Ovadya

Sivalinganna Manjunath

Todd DeZwaan

Donald E Nelson

Huai Wang

Alexander Goldshmidt

Miya Howell

Shunhong Dai

Monnanda Somaiah Rajani

Brent Brower-Toland

Steven H Schwartz

Erin Bell

Rico A Caldo

Bettina Darveaux

Bradley W McDill

Martha Post-Beittenmiller

Gregory M Thorne

Savitha Madappa

Saritha V Kuriakose

Paul S Chomet

Farhad Moshiri

Hongwu Jia

Robert J Meister

Paul J Loida

Zoe P McKiness

Xiaoyun Wu

Mahmood Sayed

Daniel Riggsbee

Maria McDonald

Aniruddha Raychaudhuri

Jaclyn Cleveland

Daniel P Schachtman

David Richard Corbin

Michael W Lassner

Oliver J Ratcliffe

T Lynne Reuber

Robert A Creelman

Edwards M Allen

Cai-Zhong Jiang

Neal I Gutterson

Roderick W Kumimoto

Timothy A Mitsky

Thomas Gene Ruff

Virginia Ursin

Deborah J Hawkins

Sekhar S Boddupalli

Jeffrey M Libby

Kathryn Dennis Lardizabal

Jeffrey E Ahrens

Paolo Castiglioni

Jingrui Wu

Peter P Repetti

Wei Zheng

Michael D Edgerton

Richard Eric Cerny

Joseph Hirschberg

Molian Deng

Jill Deikman

Matthew M Tanzer

Richard Johnson

Anagha M Sant

Steve Sichuan He

Rebecca L Thompson

Mary Fernandes

Marie E Petracek

Zhidong Xie

Cara L Griffith

Susan R Norris

Jaishree M Chittoor-Vijayanath

Yun-Hua Huang Wong

Jindong Sun

Qungang Qi

Bradon James Fabbri

Joshua Stein

Monica P Ravanello

Xianfeng Chen

Qin Zeng

Robert J Bensen

Jianmin Zhao

Obed Patty

The present invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, vectors and molecules comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a florigenic FT protein operably linked to a vegetative stage promoter, which may also be a meristem-preferred or meristem-specific promoter. Transgenic plants, plant cells and tissues, and plant parts are further provided comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding a florigenic FT protein. Transgenic plants comprising a florigenic FT transgene may produce more bolls, siliques, fruits, nuts, or pods per node on the transgenic plant, particularly on the main stem of the plant, relative to a control or wild type plant. Methods are further provided for introducing a florigenic FT transgene into a plant, and planting transgenic FT plants in the field including at higher densities. Transgenic plants of the present invention may thus provide greater yield potential than wild type plants and may be planted at a higher density due to their altered plant architecture.

Compositions and methods for altering flowering and plant architecture to improve yield potential

This disclosure provides recombinant DNA constructs and transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency, and enhanced drought tolerance or water use efficiency. Transgenic plants may include field crops as well as plant propagules and progeny of such transgenic plants. Methods of making and using such transgenic plants are also provided. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed, and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.

Transgenic plants with enhanced traits

This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits

This disclosure provides recombinant DNA constructs and transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency and enhanced drought tolerance; propagules, progeny and field crops of such transgenic plants; and methods of making and using such transgenic plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.

Transgenic seed for crops with improved traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more improved traits as compared to a control plant. Also provided are methods of making transgenic plants with recombinant DNA and the one or more improved traits and methods of using those plants.

Genes and uses for plant improvement

Transgenic seed for crops with improved traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more improved traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield. The invention also provides recombinant DNA molecules for expression of a protein.

Polynucleotides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer greater size, greater organ size, greater biomass, greater yield, curlier leaves, darker coloration, greater tolerance to water deprivation, delayed flowering, delayed development, delayed senescence, greater tolerance to cold, and/or greater tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.

Plants with improved yield and stress tolerance

Disclosed are constructs comprising sequences encoding 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A reductase and at least one other sterol synthesis pathway enzyme. Also disclosed are methods for using such constructs to alter sterol production and content in cells, plants, seeds and storage organs of plants. Also provided are oils and compositions containing altered sterol levels produced by use of the disclosed constructs. Novel nucleotide sequences useful in the alteration of sterol production are also provided. Also provided are cells, plants, seeds and storage organs of plants comprising sequences encoding 3-hydroxy-3methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A reductase, at least one other sterol synthesis pathway enzyme and at least one tocopherol synthesis enzyme.

Transgenic plants containing altered levels of steroid compounds

Provided are recombinant constructs comprising DNA sequences encoding enzymes effective in altering the biosynthesis and accumulation of sterol compounds and tocopherols in transgenic plants. Also provided are methods of using such constructs to produce transgenic plants, seeds of which contain elevated levels of sitostanol and/or sitostanol esters, and &#x3b1;-tocopherol, as well as reduced levels of campesterol and campestanol and their corresponding esters. These seeds also contain the novel sterol brassicastanol. Oil obtained from seeds of such transgenic plants is also provided. This oil can be used to prepare food and pharmaceutical compositions effective in lowering the level of low density lipoprotein cholesterol in blood serum. In addition, novel DNA sequences encoding plant steroid 5&#x3b1;-reductases are also disclosed.

Transgenic plants containing altered levels of sterol compounds and tocopherols

The present invention relates to genes associated with the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway. More particularly, the present invention provides and includes nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and antibodies associated with genes that encode polypeptides that have methyltransferase activity. The present invention also provides methods for utilizing such agents, for example in gene isolation, gene analysis and the production of transgenic plants. Moreover, the present invention includes transgenic plants modified to express the aforementioned polypeptides. In addition, the present invention includes methods for the production of products from the tocopherol biosynthesis pathway.

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