Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt En Zaadhandel B.v.

Beatrice Ingrid Lindhout

Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun

Johannes Wilhelmus Schut

Jan Hugo Den Braber

The present invention relates to plants of the Compositae family exhibiting a reversible genic male sterility trait, characterised in that the genic male sterility may be caused by a reduction or complete absence of endogenous jasmonic acid production, resulting from interference with one or more target genes involved in endogenous jasmonic acid production, selected from the group consisting of lipoxygenase, allene oxide synthase, allene oxide cyclase and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid-10,11-reductase, or their functional homologues.

Reversible genic male sterility in compositae

The present invention relates to plants of the Compositae family exhibiting a reversible genic male sterility trait, characterized in that the genic male sterility is caused by a reduction or complete absence of endogenous jasmonic acid production, resulting from interference with one or more target genes involved in endogenous jasmonic acid production, selected from the group consisting of lipoxygenase, allene oxide synthase, allene oxide cyclase and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid-10, 11-reductase, or their functional homologues.

The present invention relates to plants of the Compositae family exhibiting a reversible genic male sterility trait, characterized in that the genic male sterility may be caused by a reduction or complete absence of endogenous jasmonic acid production, resulting from interference with one or more target genes involved in endogenous jasmonic acid production, selected from the group consisting of lipoxygenase, allene oxide synthase, allene oxide cyclase and 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid-10,11-reductase, or their functional homologs.

Spinach having significantly more leaves per plant as compared to known spinach and, inter alia, cells of these plants, seeds and other propagation material as well as harvestable parts of these plants, and methods for obtaining, and using and uses of these plants and parts thereof.

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De Lier, Netherlands

Beatrice Ingrid Lindhout