Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

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Texas Tech University System

Izumi Ihara

Yoshihisa Kasukabe

Shoji Tachibana

Masako Mizutani

Yoshihiko Maekawa

Randy Dale Allen

Keisuke Matsui

Shigeo Shibatani

Hiroaki Kitazawa

Shuhei Misawa

The invention relates to plants and their progeny with improved morphogenesis in a variety of organs; to a method for producing the plants; and to a method for producing calli.

Plants with improved morphogenesis and method of constructing the same

The invention provides a method for producing a transgenic plant, as well as the plant produced from the method and the progeny of the plant. The method comprises transforming a cell of a plant with an exogenous spermidine synthase coding sequence, expressing the exogenous spermidine synthase coding sequence in the transformed cell, and generating a plant from the transformed cell. The transgenic plant has improved environmental stress tolerance against at least two environmental stresses selected from drought stress, herbicidal stress, oxidation stress, cold stress, osmotic stress, and salt stress as compared to a plant of the same species lacking the exogenous spermidine synthase coding sequence.

Plants having improved tolerance to various types of environmental stress, their production, and polyamine metabolism-related enzyme genes

The invention relates to a method of producing hyaluronic acid including (1) a step of transforming a plant cell using an expression recombinant vector including (i) a DNA encoding hyaluronic acid synthase or (ii) a DNA encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence having one or more amino acid deletions, substitutions, additions or insertions in an amino acid sequence of the hyaluronic acid synthase and having an activity of synthesizing the hyaluronic acid, (2) a step of growing a transformant obtained by transformation, and (3) a step of separating the hyaluronic acid produced by the transformant.

Plant producing hyaluronic acid

The present invention relates to isolated plant-derived polyamine metabolism-related enzyme genes characterized in that their level of expression changes when exposed to environmental stress; antisense DNA or antisense RNA to such genes; plants and their progeny having improved environmental stress tolerance, in which such genes are retained in a stable manner; methods for producing such plants, and methods for producing calli of such plants; method for selecting transformed plants which grow improved more than plants lacking an exogenous polyamine metabolism-related enzyme gene; and microorganims and plants which are transformed by such genes

Plant having improved tolerance to various environmental stresses, method of constructing the same and polyamine metabolism-relating enzyme gene

Cotton plants of the genuswith improved cotton fiber characteristics are disclosed. The cotton plant has an expression cassette containing a gene coding for an enzyme selected from the group consisting of endoxyloglucan transferase, catalase and peroxidase so that the gene is expressed in cotton fiber cells to improve the cotton fiber characteristics. Also disclosed is a method for producing cotton fibers with improved fiber characteristics from these cotton plants.

Cotton plants with improved cotton fiber characteristics and method for producing cotton fibers from these cotton plants

Cotton plants of the genus Gossypium with improved cotton fiber characteristics are disclosed. The cotton plant has an expression cassette containing a gene coding for an enzyme selected from the group consisting of endoxyloglucan transferase, catalase and peroxidase so that the gene is expressed in cotton fiber cells to improve the cotton fiber characteristics. Also disclosed is a method for producing cotton fibers with improved fiber characteristics from these cotton plants.

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Otsu, Japan

Izumi Ihara