Suntory Holdings Limited

International Flower Developments Proprietary Limited

Suntory Limited

Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha

Suntory Flowers Limited

Other

Vereniging Voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs, Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek En Patientenzorg

International Flower Development Proprietary Limited

Masako Mizutani

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Takaaki Kusumi

Yuko Fukui

Tomoyoshi Akashi

Shin-ichi Ayabe

Eiichiro Ono

Keiko Sakakibara

Yoshihisa Kasukabe

Izumi Ihara

Noriko Nakamura

Keisuke Matsui

Shoji Tachibana

Toru Nakayama

Yukihisa Katsumoto

Junichi Togami

Kazuki Saito

Mami Yamazaki

Gong Zhizhong

Masahiro Nakao

Filippa Brugliera

Toshihiko Ashikari

Akio Noguchi

Ronald Edwin Koes

Francesca Margherita Quattrocchio

Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Kees Spelt

Walter Verweij

Francesca Quattrocchio

Izumi c/o Toyobo Research Center Co Ltd Ihara

A transcriptional regulatory region of perilla anthocyanin 3-acyltransferase is useful for altering the flower color of plants.

Perilla-derived promoter functioning in petals

The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and agents useful in the manipulation of plant physiological or biochemical properties. More particularly, the present invention provides genetic and proteinaceous agents capable of modulating or altering the level of acidity or alkalinity in a cell, group of cells, organelle, part or reproductive portion of a plant. Genetically altered plants, plant parts, progeny, subsequent generations and reproductive material including flowers or flowering parts having cells exhibiting an altered cellular pH compared to a non-genetically altered plant are also provided.

Plant nucleic acids associated with cellular pH and uses thereof

The present invention provides a novel UDP-glucuronosyltransferase and a polynucleotide encoding the same, for example, a polynucleotide comprising nucleotides 1 to 1359 of SEQ ID NO: 4, nucleotides 1 to 1365 of SEQ ID NO: 10, nucleotides 1 to 1371 of SEQ ID NO: 12, and nucleotides 1 to 1371 of SEQ ID NO: 22; or a polynucleotide encoding a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NOS: 5, 11, 13 or 23. The invention provides a novel UDP-glucuronosyltransferase with a broad substrate specificity.

Polynucleotide encoding UDP-glucuronyl transferase

The invention relates to plants and their progeny with improved morphogenesis in a variety of organs; to a method for producing the plants; and to a method for producing calli.

Plants with improved morphogenesis and method of constructing the same

A method for producing a rose characterized by artificially suppressing the rose endogenous metabolic pathway and expressing the pansy gene coding for flavonoid 3',5&#x2032;-hydroxylase.

Method for producing rose with altered petal colors

There is provided a gene coding for the amino acid sequence listed as SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 70, for example. Co-expression of the 4'CGT gene and AS gene in a plant lacking natural aurone synthesis ability is carried out to successfully accumulate aurones and alter the flower color to have a yellow tint. In addition to the expression of both genes, the flavonoid pigment synthesis pathway of the host plant itself is inhibited to obtain flowers with a more defined yellow color.

Method for producing yellow flower by controlling flavonoid synthetic pathway

Disclosed is a method for determining whether or not a wild rose of interest is crossed with a cultivated rose. The method comprises the steps of: examining whether or not a KSN gene containing a transposon (an indicator) is contained in the rose of interest; and determining that the rose of interest is crossed with a cultivated rose when the individual has the transposon-containing KSN gene.

Method for determination of presence of crossing with cultivated rose in wild rose

A method of acylating the 3' position of anthocyanin using an enzyme that transfers an aromatic acyl group to a sugar at the 3&#x2032; position of anthocyanin or a gene encoding the enzyme.

Stabilization and blueing of anthocyanin pigments using gene encoding aromatic acyltransferase capable of transferring an aromatic acyl group to the 3'-position of anthocyanin

The present invention provides a protein having aurone synthase activity involved in the color of flowers such as snapdragons, a gene that encodes it, cDNA in particular, and its applications. This gene can give yellow color to the flowers of plants by introducing into plants deficient in chalcone isomerase and so forth and expressing.

Gene encoding a protein having aurone synthesis activity

A flavone synthase that synthesizes flavones from flavanones, vectors containing DNAs encoding said flavone synthases, and plants expressing same are disclosed. Methods of producing the protein which synthesizes flavones from flavanones, methods of altering the composition of flavonoids or the amount of flavonoids in a plant, methods of altering flower color and plant photosensitivity, and methods of controlling interactions between plants expressing the protein and microorganisms are also disclosed.

Flavone synthases, methods of using flavone synthases, and plants expressing flavone synthases

The present invention provides a gene that codes for a protein, wherein the protein is an anthocyanin 5-O-glucosyltransferase, which is an enzyme that transfers a glycoside to the 5 position of a flavonoid. The disclosed anthocyanin 5-O-glucosyltransferases were isolated from, and. Also disclosed are genes that code for a protein having a modified amino acid sequence relative to the above amino acid sequence and having activity that transfers a glycoside to the 5 position of a flavonoid, and a process for producing the above protein using said gene. This gene can be used to artificially alter the color of plants.

Proteins having a flavonoid 5-O-glycosyltransferase activity (5GT)

A [DNA encoding a] flavone synthase that synthesizes flavones from flavanones, vectors containing said DNAs encoding said flavone synthases, and plants expressing same are disclosed. Methods of producing the protein which synthesizes flavones from flavanones, methods of altering the composition of flavonoids or the amount of flavonoids in a plant, methods of altering flower color and plant photosensitivity, and methods of controlling interactions between plants expressing the protein and microorganisms are also disclosed.

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Kyoto, Japan

Masako Mizutani