Altria Client Services LLC

Raja Payyavula

Chengalrayan Kudithipudi

Yanxin Shen

Rajanikanth Govindarajulu

Dongmei Xu

Dong Qi

Nazmul Bhuiyan

The present disclosure provides composition and methods for improving leaf quality of low-alkaloid tobacco plants. Also provided are the identification and genetic engineering of target genes (Leaf Quality Genes) for producing tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants.

Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having altered alkaloid levels with desirable leaf quality via manipulating leaf quality genes

The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for controlling sucker growth in tobacco by altering the expression of different target genes.

Compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants and products having reduced or eliminated suckers

The present specification provides for, and includes recombinant polynucleotides that encode plant-native, callus-preferred promoters operably linked to a coding region for a visual marker gene. The present specification also provides for, and includes plants comprising the recombinant nucleotides, methods to select callus comprising the disclosed recombinant nucleotides, and methods to create plants comprising the recombinant nucleotides.

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Henrico, VA, United States of America

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