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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
May. 22, 2015
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (US);
Wellington Muchero, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Jay Chen, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Lee E. Gunter, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Sara Jawdy, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Gerald A. Tuskan, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Anthony Christian Bryan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Stephen Difazio, Morgantown, WV (US);
Hao-Bo Guo, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
UT-BATTELLE, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, Morgantown, WV (US);
Abstract
The invention provides plants having desirable levels of sugar release and/or lignin synthesis. The invention further provides methods of selecting plants with such desirable levels of sugar release and/or lignin synthesis; methods of genetically modifying plants to modulate lignin synthesis, sugar release, and modulating phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan and flavonoid production; and uses of such plants.