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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2016
Applicant:
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroshi Ezura, Tsukuba, JP;
Tohru Ariizumi, Tsukuba, JP;
Jun-ichiro Masuda, Tsukuba, JP;
Yoshihiro Okabe, Tsukuba, JP;
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, Tsukuba-Shi, Igaraki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/08 (2018.01); A01H 6/82 (2018.01); A01H 3/04 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01H 1/02 (2006.01); A01H 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/8246 (2013.01); A01H 3/04 (2013.01); A01H 5/08 (2013.01); A01H 6/825 (2018.05); C12N 15/8261 (2013.01); A01H 1/02 (2013.01); A01H 1/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a plant having an improved sugar content in fruit compared with its wild type plant, which has a mutant cyclin F-box gene comprising a nucleotide mutation that causes a non-conservative amino acid substitution in the cyclin F-box protein. The present invention also relates to a parthenocarpic plant having a mutant cyclin F-box gene comprising a nucleotide mutation that causes a non-conservative amino acid substitution in the cyclin F-box protein.