Japan Tobacco Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

Pioneer Hi-Bred Int'l Inc.

Toshiyuki Komori

Yoshimitsu Takakura

Yukoh Hiei

Toshihiko Komari

Teruyuki Imayama

Masakazu Kashihara

Marc C Albertsen

Hajime Sakai

Stanley Luck

Scott V Tingey

Ichiro Oka

Satoru Usami

Norio Kato

Shoichi Suzuki

Yuji Ishida

Toshiki Mine

Yoshiki Kuraya

Masahiko Maekawa

An object of the present invention is to provide nucleic acids capable of imparting high-yielding ability to plants. Another object of the present invention is to use such nucleic acids to produce transgenic plants at increased yield, as well as to provide methods for increasing the yield of plants. By introducing into a plant a construct in which a promoter of a pseudo-response regulator gene inand/or a structural gene of a pseudo-response regulator in a plant are operably linked, a transgenic plant is obtained that has acquired high-yielding ability.

Nucleic acid imparting high-yielding property to plant, method for producing transgenic plant with increased yield, and method for increasing plant yield

Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a DTP21 polypeptide.

Drought tolerant plants and related constructs and methods involving genes encoding DTP21 polypeptides

The present invention aims to provide novel vectors for plant transformation. The vectors of the present invention are cosmid vectors having a full length of 15 kb or less characterized in that:

Cosmid vector for plant transformation and use thereof

An object of the present invention to provide a hybrid plant having a high fertility and a method for producing such a hybrid plant. The hybrid plant of the present invention is characterized by having two or more copies of a fertility restorer gene at two or more gene loci which do not have a complete linkage relationship. Further, the method of the present invention comprises introducing a fertility restorer gene by genetic engineering and placing two or more copies of a fertility restorer gene at two or more gene loci which do not have a complete linkage relationship.

Method for improving fertility of hybrid plants comprising placing fertility restorer genes into multiple gene loci

The purpose of the present invention is to provide the rice restorer gene to the rice BT type cytoplasmic male sterility. The gene of the present invention comprises a nucleic acid encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 75, or an amino acid sequence which is identical to at least 70% of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 75, and which functions to restore fertility. Preferably, the gene of the present invention has the base sequence of SEQ ID NOS:69-74, 80-85 or the bases 43907-46279 of SEQ ID NO:27.

Rice restorer gene to the rice BT type cytoplasmic male sterility

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Shizuoka, Japan

Toshiyuki Komori