University of Illinois

The University of Texas System

University of Florida Research Foundation Inc

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

Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska

University of Kentucky Research Foundation

Donald R Ort

Joseph Chappell

Thomas Clemente

Stephen P Long

Fredy Altpeter

Shuhua (Joshua) Yuan

Xinguang Zhu

Stephen Patrick Moose

Hong Ma

Yong Kyoung Kim

Aleel K Grennan

Damla D Bilgin

The impact of plastid size change in both monocot and dicot plants has been examined. In both, when plastid size is increased there is an increase in biomass relative to the parental lines. Thus, provided herein are methods for increasing the biomass of a plant, comprising decreasing the expression of at least one plastid division protein in a plant. Optionally, the level of chlorophyll in the plant is also reduced.

Plants having increased biomass and methods for making the same

The present invention provides methods of producing biological products or increasing production of such products through expression in a plant of a bacterial or plant glycolate catabolic cycle gene, such as glycolate dehydrogenease (GDH), glycolate oxidase (GO), or malate synthase (MS) in combination with a plant gene, such as farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPS), squalene synthase (SQS), or PLAS. Also provided are plants, plants parts and compositions produced through methods of the present invention. The invention leads to two to five fold increase of end product yield.

Rerouting the photorespiration pathway in plants for increasing bioproduct yield

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Donald R Ort