Ceres, Inc.

James Burns

Shing Kwok

Sam Harris

Roger I Pennell

Michael F Portereiko

Vijay K Sharma

Gerard Magpantay

Han-Suk Kim

Kenneth Bounds

Ryan Miller

Gregory Nadzan

Peter Mascia

Maxim Troukhan

Joel Rarang

Kyle Vos Strache

Kenneth A Feldmann

Nickolai Alexandrov

Vyacheslav Brover

Timothy J Swaller

Vladimir Makarov

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

The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3' termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.

Sequence determined DNA fragments and corresponding polypeptides encoded thereby

Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) low light tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding polypeptides that confer plants with tolerance to low light are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low light tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased low light tolerance.

Increasing low light tolerance in plants

The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, sterility or seedling lethality in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.

Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated plant characteristics

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