Monsanto Technology LLC

Paul J Loida

Jeffrey E Ahrens

Elena A Rice

Rebecca L Thompson

Linda L Lutfiyya

Paolo Castiglioni

Erin Bell

Cara L Griffith

Robert J Bensen

Wei Wu

Barry S Goldman

Balasulojini Karunanandaa

Robert J Meister

Sivalinganna Manjunath

Stephen M Duff

J Philip Taylor

Jiali Xie

Shoba Cherian

Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra

Srikanth Babu Venkatachalayya

Abha Khandelwal

Edwards M Allen

Tyamagondlu V Venkatesh

John A Korte

Thomas Gene Ruff

Virginia Ursin

Mark Scott Abad

Deborah J Hawkins

Beth Savidge

Jingrui Wu

Wei Zheng

Todd DeZwaan

Karen Gabbert

Richard Eric Cerny

Michael D Edgerton

Donald E Nelson

Huai Wang

Molian Deng

Jill Deikman

Brendan S Hinchey

Monnanda Somaiah Rajani

Richard Johnson

Anagha M Sant

Zhidong Xie

Steve Sichuan He

Steven H Schwartz

Mary Fernandes

Marie E Petracek

Jaishree M Chittoor-Vijayanath

Jindong Sun

Bradon James Fabbri

Bettina Darveaux

Saritha V Kuriakose

Monica P Ravanello

Xianfeng Chen

Qin Zeng

Obed Patty

Savitha Madappa

Jianmin Zhao

Garrett J Lee

Maureen Daley

Jason Fenner

Kammaradi R Vidya

Ming Peng

Rebecca L Thompson-Mize

Dale L Vai

Tymagondlu V Venkatesh

K Vijayalakshmi

Todd C Weber

Daniel Ruzicka

Jon J Schmuke

Xiao Yang

Alice Clara Augustine

Shobha Char

Anand Pandravada

Rajani Monnanda Somaiah

Rick A Sanders

Padmini Sudarshana

Jeffrey Ahrens

Robert Benson

Jaffery Ahrens

A recombinant DNA construct is disclosed. When the recombinant DNA construct is expressed in a plant or a plant cell, endogenous HD-Zip class II proteins become less able to repress DNA transcription of the genes they typically regulate. The recombinant DNA construct can be expressed in plant cells to produce plants with enhanced phenotypes. Methods of making transgenic plants comprising the recombinant DNA construct, and plants produced thereby are also disclosed.

Interfering with HD-Zip transcription factor repression of gene expression to produce plants with enhanced traits

This disclosure provides recombinant DNA constructs and transgenic plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency, and enhanced drought tolerance or water use efficiency. Transgenic plants may include field crops as well as plant propagules and progeny of such transgenic plants. Methods of making and using such transgenic plants are also provided. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such transgenic plants, growing such seed, and selecting progeny plants with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are transgenic plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting transgenic events for the desired enhanced trait.

Transgenic plants with enhanced traits

This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits

The disclosure provides DNA molecules and constructs, as well as their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The disclosure also provides nucleic acid sequences fromcomprising novel regulatory elements identified from the AtHB17 gene. The disclosure also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides are also provided, as are methods of their use.

Plant regulatory elements and uses thereof

The present invention provides DNA molecules and constructs, and their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. Transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides are also provided, as are methods of their use.

The present invention provides transgenic plants transformed with novel DNA constructs comprising promoter sequences useful for driving the expression of heterologous DNA sequences. Such promoter sequences include promoters hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein promoters. Also included in the invention are plant cells and seeds produced by the transgenic plants that comprise the novel DNA sequences.

Hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein promoter

Disclosed herein are transgenic plants and seed having an exogenous DNA which expresses a GB1 protein that imparts increased glycine-betaine content in plants.

Transgenic plants with increased glycine-betaine

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