Kirin Beer Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshihiro Toguri

Toshio Fujii

Masaharu Yoshioka

Kanji Mamiya

Toshiya Ogawa

Naoyuki Umemoto

Osamu Nishizawa

Stefano R Ferri

Stefano Ferri

It is an object of the present invention to provide a means of imparting a yellowish flower color to a plant having no or little yellowish flower color or enhancing the yellowish flower color in a plant. In accordance with the present invention, a method of producing a plant having yellowish petals with the use of a peptide having transport activity to chromoplasts in petals and a fused gene formed of a gene encoding such peptide and one, or two or more genes encoding enzyme proteins involved in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway is provided.

Peptide transporting to chromoplasts in petals and method of constructing plant having yellowish petals by using the same

The present invention relates to improved promoters and utilization thereof, in particular to promoters which are improved so as not to undergo methylation in the course of constructing transformants, and utilization thereof. According to the present invention, the expression efficiency of a structural gene can be enhanced even in a plant, e.g., which has weak expression of the structural gene by a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter which as been considered a high expression promoter for plants.

Promoters and utilization thereof

&bgr;-ketoacyl-ACP synthetase II enzymes and genes coding for same

DNA strands coding for glycerol-e-phosphate acyltransferase

Gene for fatty acid desaturase, vector containing said gene, plant

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Tochigi, Japan

Toshihiro Toguri