Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Monsanto Technology LLC

Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.

Jingrui Wu

Bo Shen

Stanton B Dotson

Jeffrey Habben

Linda L Lutfiyya

Mary A Rupe

Benjamin P Weers

Jindong Sun

Jeffrey R Schussler

Nathan David Coles

Changlin Fu

Barry S Goldman

Robert J Meister

Olga Nikolaevna Danilevskaya

Paolo Castiglioni

Michael D Edgerton

Donald E Nelson

Zhidong Xie

Jaishree M Chittoor-Vijayanath

Kimberly Zobrist

Rosana Melo

Garrett J Lee

Carl R Simmons

Oliver J Ratcliffe

Jacqueline E Heard

Gregory R Heck

David K Kovalic

Cai-Zhong Jiang

Neal I Gutterson

Shane E Abbitt

Timothy W Conner

Balasulojini Karunanandaa

Jingdong Liu

Roderick W Kumimoto

Tyamagondlu V Venkatesh

Thomas R Adams

Scott E Andersen

Thomas Gene Ruff

Yongwei Cao

Virginia Ursin

Deborah J Hawkins

Mark Scott Abad

Jeffrey E Ahrens

Jeffrey M Libby

Beth Savidge

Frederick D Hempel

Todd DeZwaan

Karen Gabbert

Wei Zheng

Paul J Loida

Richard Eric Cerny

Stephen M Duff

Jill Deikman

James S Keddie

Molian Deng

Richard Johnson

Monnanda Somaiah Rajani

Marie E Petracek

Steven H Schwartz

Steve Sichuan He

Shai J Lawit

Bradley K Sherman

Erin Bell

Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra

Xiaoyun Wu

Obed Patty

Heather Marie Christensen

Robert J Bensen

Savitha Madappa

Thomas J La Rosa

Bradon James Fabbri

Carlos M La Rota

Monica P Ravanello

Xianfeng Chen

Ming Peng

Naveen Silvester

Mary J Frank

Srikanth Babu Venkatachalayya

Kammaradi R Vidya

Maureen Daley

Jason Fenner

Kimberly Faye Zobrist-Duff

G Ramamohan

Alice Clara Augustine

Shobha Char

Anand Pandravada

Rajani Monnanda Somaiah

Rick A Sanders

Padmini Sudarshana

Rebecca L Thompson-Mize

Dale L Vai

Tymagondlu V Venkatesh

K Vijayalakshmi

Todd C Weber

Olga Danilevskaya

The compositions and methods relate to shorter stature corn plants having an increased and extended expression of a MADS-box polypeptide along with one or more genetic modifications that result in shorter stature.

Reduced stature maize and mads-box transcription factors

Genome edited plants, plant cells, seeds and plant parts of maize are provided where expression levels and/or activities of MADS-box transcription factors are modulated to improve one or more agronomic characteristics such as grain yield. Also provided are compositions comprising polynucleotides encoding polypeptides and guide RNAs targeted to endogenous maize MADS-box proteins including for example, targeted site-directed mutagenesis using CRISPR-associated nucleases. Additionally, various methods of employing the polynucleotides and genetic modifications in plants, such as methods for modulating expression level in a maize plant and methods for increasing yield of a maize plant are also provided herein.

Improving agronomic characteristics in maize by modification of endogenous mads box transcription factors

The compositions and methods disclosed relate to DNA compositions, plant cells, seeds, plant parts that relate to maize plants with increased grain yield trait. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the maize DP-202216-6 event based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct inserted into the maize genome and the DNA sequences flanking the insertion site. Kits and conditions useful in conducting the assays are provided.

Genes, constructs and maize event DP-202216-6

Provided are compositions comprising polynucleotides encoding polypeptides. Also provided are recombinant DNA constructs, plants, plant cells, seed, grain comprising the polynucleotides, and plants, plant cells, seed, grain comprising a genetic modification at a genomic locus encoding a polypeptide. Additionally, various methods of employing the polynucleotides and genetic modifications in plants, such as methods for modulating expression level in a plant and methods for increasing yield of a plant are also provided herein.

MADS box proteins and improving agronomic characteristics in plants

This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits

This disclosure provides transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and enhanced drought tolerance; propagules, progeny and field crops of such transgenic plants; and methods of making and using such transgenic plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing hybrid seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.

Transgenic plants with enhanced traits

This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Disclosed herein are transgenic plants having recombinant DNA which expresses a G1073 transcription factor which provides enhanced resistance and/or tolerance to water deficit. More specifically the DNA constructs comprise a polynucleotide which encodes at least a functional part of a G1073 transcription factor or a homologous transcription factor.

Transgenic plants

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased biomass or improved cold or other osmotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or reference plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.

Transcriptional regulation of plant biomass and abiotic stress tolerance

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Johnston, IA, United States of America

Jingrui Wu