Syngenta Participations Ag

Kateri Duncan

Nalini M Desai

Michael L Nuccio

Matthew W Mitchell

Lining Guo

Weining Gu

Jacob Wulff

Jonathan Cohn

The present invention relates to the fields of agriculture, plant breeding or genetic engineering for plants with increased yield, crop forecasting and crop management. In particular, the methods herein describe novel methods of predicting a plant's yield through the measurement of specific metabolites either individually or in combination with one another in a specific plant reproductive tissue. The plant predictive methods described herein may be used to predict yield of plant populations as well as allow for more efficient crop management practices (e.g. amount and timing of chemical applications or amount of irrigation water applied to a field).

Methods of predicting crop yield using metabolic profiling

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and regards various polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods that may be employed to enhance yield in transgenic plants. Specifically the transgenic plants may exhibit any one of the traits consisting of increased yield, increased tolerance to abiotic stress, increased cell growth and increased nutrient use efficiency.

Polynucleotides encoding trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase and methods of use thereof

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West Des Moines, IA, United States of America

Kateri Duncan