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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Zeneca Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4351723 ; 4352404 ; 536 236 ; 536 245 ;
Abstract
The synthesis of lignin by plants is controlled by transformation of the plant genome with a recombinant gene construct which contains the gene specifying an enzyme critical to the synthesis of a lignin precursor, which gene may be in antisense orientation so that it is transcribed to mRNA having a sequence complementary to the equivalent mRNA transcribed from the endogenous gene thus leading to suppression of lignin synthesis. If the recombinant gene has the lignin enzyme gene in normal, or 'sense' orientation, increased production of the enzyme may occur when the insert is the full length DNA but suppression may occur if only a partial sequence is employed.