Japan Tobacco Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Pioneer Hi-bred Int'l Inc.

Masakazu Kashihara

Toshihiko Komari

Ichiro Oka

Toshiyuki Komori

Marc C Albertsen

Hajime Sakai

Yoshimitsu Takakura

Stanley Luck

Scott V Tingey

Yukoh Hiei

Satoru Usami

Teruyuki Imayama

Norio Kato

Masahiko Maekawa

An object of the present invention is to provide nucleic acids capable of imparting high-yielding ability to plants. Another object of the present invention is to use such nucleic acids to produce transgenic plants at increased yield, as well as to provide methods for increasing the yield of plants. By introducing into a plant a construct in which a promoter of a pseudo-response regulator gene inand/or a structural gene of a pseudo-response regulator in a plant are operably linked, a transgenic plant is obtained that has acquired high-yielding ability.

Nucleic acid imparting high-yielding property to plant, method for producing transgenic plant with increased yield, and method for increasing plant yield

Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a DTP21 polypeptide.

Drought tolerant plants and related constructs and methods involving genes encoding DTP21 polypeptides

The present invention relates to a method of evaluating multiple plant individuals or plant lines for deep rooting property under the same culture medium moisture conditions. A method of the present invention is a method of evaluating multiple plant individuals for deep rooting property under the same culture medium moisture conditions, by planting multiple plant individuals together in a sufficiently deep culture vessel and lowering the culture medium moisture content gradually. The present invention also provides a method for evaluating plants for deep rooting property, wherein a culture vessel is installed in a water tank so that the culture medium moisture content can be readily adjusted, and thus management of cultivation conditions is facile and efficient. It is possible to select a plant which can grow in dry and low-groundwater level environment efficiently, by using the method of the present invention. Thus, the method of the present invention can find application in breeding a crop suitable for dry land cultivation and trees usable in desert greening.

Method for evaluating deep rooting property of plant

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Shizuoka, Japan

Masakazu Kashihara