Ceres, Inc.

Gerard Magpantay

Roger I Pennell

Shing Kwok

Julissa Sosa

Richard Schneeberger

Fasong Zhou

Gregory Nadzan

Emilio Margolles-Clark

Wuyi Wang

Kenneth A Feldmann

Nickolai Alexandrov

Vyacheslav Brover

Nestor Apuya

Cory Christensen

Jack K Okamuro

Peter Mascia

Han Suk Kim

Bonnie Hund

David Van-dinh Dang

Hongyu Zhang

Kerstin Piccolo

Han-Suk Kim

Michael F Portereiko

Vijay K Sharma

James Burns

Sam Harris

Kenneth Bounds

Ryan Miller

Chuan-Yin Wu

Greg Nadzan

Mircea Achiriloaie

Methods and materials for modulating low light and/or shade tolerance, and red light specific responses in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low light and/or SD+EODFR-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low light and/or SD+EODFR tolerance. In addition, methods and materials involved in increasing UV-B tolerance in plants and methods and materials involved in modulating biomass levels in plants are provided.

Modulating light response pathways in plants, increasing light-related tolerances in plants, and increasing biomass in plants

Methods and materials for modulating biomass levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased biomass levels and plant products produced from plants having increased biomass levels.

Transgenic plants having increased biomass

Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increasedlow-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.

Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modified phenotype characteristics in plants

Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased[2] low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.

Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.

Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased nitrogen use efficiency. The present invention further relates to nucleotide sequences and the use of those nucleotide sequences in the genetic-engineering of plants to display enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and utilization capacities, grow larger, more efficiently or rapidly, and/or have enriched nitrogen contents in vegetative and/or reproductive plant parts and/or increased biomass. More particularly, this invention relates to producing transgenic plants engineered to have altered expression of key components in the nitrogen assimilation and utilization pathways. The engineered plants may be productively cultivated under conditions of low nitrogen fertilizer input or in nitrogen poor soils. Alternatively, the engineered plants may be used to achieve faster growing or maturing crops, higher crop yields and/or more nutritious products under ideal cultivation conditions.

Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics

Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying nitrogen use efficiency characteristics in plants

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Calabasas, CA, United States of America

Gerard Magpantay