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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vincent Lee C. Chiang, Hancock, MI (US);
Chung-Jui Tsai, Hancock, MI (US);
Wen-Jing Hu, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Board of Control of Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 ; C12N 1/582 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 ; C12N 1/582 ;
Abstract
The invention pertains to methods of altering growth, lignin content, coniferyl and sinapyl alcohol units in the lignin structure, disease resistance and cellulose content in plants by transformation with a lignin pathway p-coumarate Co-enzyme A ligase (4CL) nucleic acid.