Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Limited

Dairy Australia Limited

Basf Plant Science Company Gmbh

Ulrik Peter John

German Carlos Spangenberg

Robyn Louise Heath

Aidyn Mouradov

Angela Jane Lidgett

Russell Leigh McInnes

Damian Paul Lynch

Huihua Fu

Megan Elizabeth Griffith

Renata Martina Polotonianka

Carl Ramage

The present invention relates to the modification of lignin biosynthesis in plants, to enzymes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway and nucleic acids encoding such enzymes and, more particularly, to methods of modifying lignin biosynthesis via sense suppression and to related nucleic acids and constructs.

Modification of lignin biosynthesis via sense suppression

The present invention relates to the modification of lignin biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to enzymes involved in the lignin biosynthetic pathway and nucleic acids encoding such enzymes.

Modification of lignin biosynthesis

The present invention provides an isolated promoter or an active fragment or derivative thereof capable of conferring selective expression on a gene to which it is operably connected in the endosperm of a developing plant seed and preferably in the basal endosperm transfer layer (BETL) of endosperm. The present invention also provides expression vectors and constructs and transgenic plant cells, plant parts and whole plants comprising the promoter, active fragments and derivatives, and well as methods of modulating one or more plant phenotypes employing the promoter, active fragments and derivatives.

Plant promoter operable in basal endosperm transfer layer of endosperm and uses thereof

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Westgarth, Australia

Ulrik Peter John