University of California

Carmel—haifa University Economic Corp Ltd.

Targeted Growth, Inc.

United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Jorge Dubcovsky

Tzion Fahima

Jean Paul Olivier

Wenjun Zhang

Cristobal Uauy

Assaf Distelfeld

Tom Todaro

Ann E Blechl

Liuling Yan

Artem Loukoianov

Daolin Fu

The invention provides a wheat cell, part, tissue culture or whole plant comprising at least one disrupted KRP gene of the present invention. The present invention also provides methods of increasing weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield of a wheat plant by utilizing the disrupted KRP genes of the present invention. Furthermore, methods of breeding wheat plants to produce new wheat plants having increased weight, size, and/or number of one or more organs, and/or yield are provided. The present invention provides isolated Kinase Inhibitor Protein (KIP) Related Protein (KRP) polynucleotide sequences and isolated KRP polypeptide sequences and methods of their use.

Identification and use of KRP mutants in wheat

An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes a polypeptide comprising both a steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer (START) domain and a kinase domain is provided, as well as plant cells and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acid molecule, said transgenic plants being resistant to plant diseases.

Kinase-start gene conferring resistance to plant disease and transgenic plants comprising it

The present invention provides wheat NAC nucleic acids and proteins that modulate grain protein content and senescence in plants. Overexpression of a NAC coding sequence can accelerate senescence and increase grain protein content and inhibition of expression can delay senescence. The invention also provides methods of using the nucleic acids to produce transgenic plants with altered grain protein content or senescence.

NAC from wheat for increasing grain protein content

Winter wheats require several weeks at low temperature to flower. This process called vernalization is controlled mainly by a pair of genes, VRN1 and VRN2. The present invention includes the sequences of the VRN1 and VRN2 genes, proteins and promoter regions, transgenic plants containing the genes and/or promoters and uses of the foregoing. Of particular interest are temperate cereals with modified vernalization responses or flowering times.

Genes responsible for vernalization regulation in temperate grasses and uses thereof

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Davis, CA, United States of America

Jorge Dubcovsky