Basf Plant Science Gmbh

Max-planck-gesellschaft Zur F&#xf6;rderung Der Wissenschaften E. V.

Rita Maria Zrenner

Jörg Bauer

Thorsten Zank

Andreas Renz

Oliver Oswald

Marc Stitt Nigel

Peter Ludwig Geigenberger

Helene Vigeolas

Silke Koslowsky

Peter Geigenberger

This invention relates generally to plant cells and/or plants with increased yield as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with the intermediate phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP) in plants. In particular, this invention relates to plant cells and/or plants with increased yield as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthases (PRPP synthetase, PRS) The invention also deals with methods of producing and screening for and breeding such plant cells and/or plants.

Plants with increased yield

The invention relates to methods for increasing the oil content in plants, preferably in the seeds of plants, by expression of glycerol-3-phosphatdehydrogenases (G3PDH) from yeast, preferably from. The invention also relates to expression constructs for the expression of G3PDH yeast in plants, preferably in the seeds of plants, transgenic plants expressing G3PDH, and to the use of said transgenic plants in the production of foodstuffs, feed, seeds, pharmaceuticals or fine chemicals, especially in the production of oils.

Methods for increasing oil content in plants

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Potsdam-Golm, Germany

Rita Maria Zrenner