Ceres, Inc.

Joel Rarang

Kenneth A Feldmann

Gregory Nadzan

Peter Mascia

Maxim Troukhan

Steven Craig Bobzin

James Burns

Boris Jankowski

Daniel Mumenthaler

Kyle Vos Strache

Nickolai Alexandrov

Vyacheslav Brover

Richard Schneeberger

Nestor Apuya

Jack K Okamuro

Ke Zhang

Emilio Margolles-Clark

Timothy J Swaller

Joon-Hyun Park

Elena Doukhanina

Amr Saad Ragab

Vladimir Makarov

Karen Chiang

Jennifer E Van Fleet

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

Materials and Methods for identifying lignin regulatory region-regulatory protein associations are disclosed. Materials and methods for modulating lignin accumulation are also disclosed. In addition, methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) the level of a component (e.g., protein, oil, lignin, carbon, a carotenoid, or a triterpenoid) in plants are disclosed.

Modulating the level of components within plants

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

Modulating plant oil levels

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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