Japan Tobacco Inc.

Masao Arai

Shoichi Suzuki

Kaori Hamano

Ayako Nomura

Mai Tsukahara

Yuta Negishi

Seiki Sato

James Nigel Burnell

Soichiro Noguchi

Nobuhiko Murai

Yoshimitsu Takakura

Shozo Ohta

Hisashi Udagawa

Shigehiro Yamada

Takanori Takeuchi

Hiroshi Magome

Ryo Nishiguchi

Patrick M Finnegan

An embodiment of the present invention provides a tobacco plant having a low alkaloid content. In the tobacco plant, a function of a gene encoding aspartate oxidase AO2 is suppressed.

Plant body of genuswith low alkaloid content and production method thereof

Provided is a tobacco plant which is suitable for cultivation for harvesting leaf tobaccos. The present invention encompasses (i) a tobacco plant into which a mutation for suppressing the development of primary axillary buds is introduced, (ii) a method of obtaining the tobacco plant, (iii) a harvest from the tobacco plant, and (iv) a processed product of the harvest.

Tobacco plant and production method thereof

The present invention provides a tobacco plant which is suitable for cultivation for harvesting leaf tobaccos. The present invention includes (i) a tobacco plant in which a mutation for suppressing the development of axillary buds is introduced and (ii) a method of producing the tobacco plant.

Tobacco plant and method for manufacturing same

The present invention provides a polynucleotide having a function of regulating a content of a plant metabolite, a polypeptide having a function of regulating a content of a plant metabolite, a vector containing the polynucleotide or a part of the polynucleotide, and a transformed plant produced by using the vector. Examples of such polynucleotides or polypeptides include polynucleotides or polypeptides with homology with quinolinate synthase or those which are predicted to be transcription factors. A method for producing the transformed plant is additionally included.

Tobacco enzymes for regulating content of plant metabolites, and use thereof

The present invention provides a polynucleotide having a function of regulating a content of a plant metabolite, a polypeptide having a function of regulating a content of a plant metabolite, a vector containing the polynucleotide or a part of the polynucleotide, and a transformed plant produced by using the vector, and a method for producing the transformed plant, and according to the above polynucleotide, polypeptide, vector, transformed plant and method, a novel gene regulating a content of a plant metabolite and use of the novel gene.

Tobacco enzymes for regulating content of plant metabolites, and uses thereof

The present invention relates a method for transforming a rice plant to provide it with a C4 photosynthetic pathway by way of the introduction of some genes participating in a C4 photosynthetic pathway. To this end, the method of the invention comprises introducing a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) and a gene coding for a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK) which has been connected with a DNA fragment coding for a transit peptide into a rice plant.

Rice plants transformed to provide a PCK-type C4 cycle and methods of making

DNA encoding phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, recombinant vector and

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Tokyo, Japan

Masao Arai