The Dow Chemical Company

Dow Agrosciences LLC

Beth Blakeslee

Ignacio Mario Larrinua

Daniel Gachotte

Avutu Sambi Reddy

Randy J Pell

Barbara A Miller

David A McCrery

J Vincent B Oriedo

Rodney Crosley

Gregory P Pogue

Vipula Shukla

Guy R Della-Cioppa

Philip J Savickas

Max Otto Ruegger

Ted Weglarz

Wenjin Zheng

Thaddeus Weglarz

Gerson Wolfe

This invention encompasses the identification and isolation genes and gene fragments that confer altered metabolic characteristics inplants, when expressed using GENEWARE&#x2122; viral vectors. These genes are derived from a variety of sources. Expression of these genes resulted in alterations of the levels of at least one of the following metabolites: acids, fatty acids, amino acids and related compounds, branched fatty acids, carbohydrates, hydrocarbons, alkaloids and other bases, esters, glycerides, phenols and related compounds, alcohols, alkenes and alkynes, sterols, oxygenated terpenes, and other isoprenoids, and ketones and quinones.

Nucleic acid compositions conferring altered metabolic characteristics

This invention relates to putative known and unknown deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and amino acid sequences identified in one or more metabolic pathways that lead to dwarfism and stunting in plants and the use of these sequences in agriculture to create dwarf varieties of any plant species. This invention also relates to nucleic acids sequences and polypeptides that produce altered metabolism phenotypes in plants.

Nucleic acids compositions conferring dwarfing phenotype

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