Yield10 Bioscience, Inc.

Nuseed Nutritional US Inc.

Nirmala Sharma

Oliver P Peoples

Kristi D Snell

Jihong Tang

Meghna Malik

Frank Anthony Skraly

Madana M R Ambavaram

Venkatesh Bollina

Yuanyuan Ji

Nii Patterson

Matthew Martino

Claire Burkitt

Kieran Ryan

A transgenic land plant that expresses a polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase seed specifically, with cytosolic localization is disclosed. The plant includes a nucleic acid encoding the polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase and a seed-specific promoter operably linked to the nucleic acid. The seed-specific promoter drives expression of the polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase in cytosol of cells of seeds of the plant. The polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase includes a catalytic domain. The polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase does not include any sequence positioned to mediate translocation of the catalytic domain across any membrane of the cells, thereby resulting in the polyhydroxy alkanoate synthase being expressed seed specifically, with cytosolic localization.

Transgenic land plants that express a polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase seed specifically with cytosolic localization

A genetically engineered land plant that expresses a protein that has homology to a plant invertase inhibitor and/or a pectin methylesterase inhibitor and that increases seed yield with increased expression ('an ISY protein') is disclosed. The plant comprises a modified gene for the ISY protein. The ISY protein comprises one or more of an ISY protein ofcomprising SEQ ID NO: 2 or a fragment,homolog, or ortholog thereof. The modified gene comprises a promoter and a nucleic acid sequence encoding the ISY protein. The promoter is non-cognate with respect to the nucleic acid sequence encoding the ISY protein. The modified gene is configured such that transcription of the nucleic acid sequence is initiated from the promoter and results in expression of the ISY protein. A genetically engineered land plant that expresses an RNA that increases seed yield with increased expression also is disclosed.

Genetically engineered land plants that express an increased seed yield protein and/or an increased seed yield RNA

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Saskatoon, Canada

Nirmala Sharma