Exelixis Plant Sciences, Inc.

Agrinomics LLC

Agritope, Inc.

Agrigenetics, Inc.

Debra K Schuster

Stephanie Kay Clendennen

Jonathan E Lightner

Nancy Anne Federspiel

Jeremy E Coate

The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of an ICL nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.

Generation of plants with altered oil content

Plant promoters that exhibit seed-associated expression are described, including bi-directional promoters capable of directing seed-associated expression in either orientation.

Seed-associated promoter sequences

The invention relates to the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for a melon constitutive triple response (CTR1) homologue, called mCTR, vectors, cells and transgenic plants which comprise the coding sequence for mCTR or a biologically active fragment thereof and methods of producing transgenic plants which express mCTR or a biologically active fragment thereof.

CTR1 homologue from melon

The present invention is directed to apple fruit-associated and Thi 1.3:actin fusion promoters capable of promoting the expression of heterologous genes. The invention provides apple fruit-associated and Thi 1.3:actin fusion promoters together with heterologous nucleic acid constructs, vectors, kits, transformation methods, transgenic plant cells and transgenic plants comprising such promoters.

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Debra K Schuster