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Swetree Technologies Ab

Plant Response, Inc.

Robert A Creelman

Oliver J Ratcliffe

T Lynne Reuber

Jacqueline E Heard

Jose Luis Riechmann

Cai-Zhong Jiang

Omaira Pineda

Neal I Gutterson

Luc Adam

Roderick W Kumimoto

Peter P Repetti

Frederick D Hempel

Karen S Century

Roger D Canales

Hans E Holtan

Katherine Krolikowski

Guo-Liang Yu

James Z Zhang

James S Keddie

Marsha L Pilgrim

Suqin Cai

Paul S Chomet

Thomas Gene Ruff

Robert J Meister

Jeffrey M Libby

Arnold N DuBell, Iii

Marie E Petracek

Kimberly Faye Zobrist Duff

Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace

Qingzhang Xu

Volker Haake

Bradley K Sherman

Pierre E Broun

R Eric Cerny

Pierre Broun

Raymond R Samaha

Kimberly Faye Duff

Gregory Nadzan

Richard Eric Cerny

Shiv Bahadur Tiwari

Colleen M Marion

Graham J Hymus

Amanda J Burek

Megan Lau

Bonnie R Brayton

Yu Shen

Marjorie R Lundgren

Luc J Adam

Arnold N Dubell

Balasulojini Karunanandaa

Karen Gabbert

Magnus Hertzberg

Michael Fromm

Torgny Näsholm

Emily L Queen

Joshua I Armstrong

Masa-aki Ohto

Adina M Bailey

Joseph Michael Palys

Lynne Reuber

Jennifer M Costa

Ganesh Kumar

Tracy A Morrison

Arnold Dubell

Neal L Gutterson

Susanne Kjemtrup-lovelace

Lynne T Reuber

Peter Repetti

Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.

Plant tolerance to low water, low nitrogen and cold II

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.

Polynucleotides and polypeptides in plants

Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant.

Yield and stress tolerance in transgenic plants IV

The instant description provides reporter constructs, transgenic cells, and transgenic organisms and methods for identifying agents that can regulate gene expression and improve plant performance and yield. Compounds that increase plant performance or yield are identified by contacting a test compound with a plant cell that comprises a target promoter sequence operably linked to a polynucleotide sequence encoding a DNA sequence-specific transactivator, and a reporter polynucleotide that is operably linked to a promoter sequence that is recognized by the DNA sequence-specific transactivator. The target promoter sequence can be recognized by a transcriptional regulatory polypeptide capable of modulating specific signaling pathways that enhance plant performance or yield.

Reporter constructs for compound screening

Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been shown to be more resistant to disease (in some cases, to more than one pathogen), or more tolerant to an abiotic stress (in some cases, to more than one abiotic stress). The abiotic stress may include, for example, salt, hyperosmotic stress, water deficit, heat, cold, drought, or low nutrient conditions.

Stress tolerance in plants

The application describes producing polynucleotide variants of the AtHB 17 clade members and introducing the mutant variants into plants to improve plant traits. The mutant polynucleotides encode polypeptides that comprise mutations in the EAR motifs.

Mutation of the EAR motif of class II HD-ZIP polypeptides

This disclosure provides transgenic plants, including crop plants and methods for their production. The transgenic plants comprise recombinant DNA constructs for the expression of polypeptides encoded by the DNA constructs. The polypeptides are capable of conferring improved traits to the transgenic plants when expressed under the control of a tissue-enhanced promoter. This disclosure also pertains to transgenic plants and their progeny plants, wherein the transgenic or progeny plants comprise the recombinant DNA constructs and are selected for having enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or nitrogen uptake. Seed of the transgenic plants that can be grown into a plant that comprise the disclosed recombinant DNA constructs and exhibits having enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, and which may be selected for this trait, are also envisioned.

Nitrogen uptake in plants

The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having improved tolerance to drought, shade, and low nitrogen conditions, as compared to wild-type or reference plants.

Plant transcriptional regulators

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Castro Valley, CA, United States of America

Robert A Creelman