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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael Meyrick Burrell, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Advanced Technologies (Cambridge), Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/531 ; C12P 1/904 ; A01H 5/00 ; A01H 5/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/531 ; C12P 1/904 ; A01H 5/00 ; A01H 5/06 ;
Abstract
Transgenic potato plants are prepared by a method which transforms potato plants with a chimeric gene comprising a promoter and sequence encoding a phosphofructose kinase, which regulates the amount of a metabolite in a pathway for the synthesis or degradation of starch, sucrose or reducing sugar. In stored transgenic potato tubers of the invention an increased level of phosphofructose kinase results in reduced accumulation of sugars.