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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
James Augustus Henry Murray, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Cambridge University Technical Services, Ltd., Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/529 ; C12N 1/582 ; A01H 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/529 ; C12N 1/582 ; A01H 5/00 ;
Abstract
A process is provided for modifying growth or architecture of plants by altering the level or the functional level of a cell division controlling protein, preferably a cell-division controlling protein that binds phosphorylates retinoblasoma-link proteins, more preferably a cyclin, particularly a D-type cyclin within cells of a plant. Also provided are chimeric genes comprising a transcribed DNA region encoding an RNA or a protein, which when expressed either increases or decreases the level or functional level of a cell-division controlling protein, and plant cells and plants expressing such chimeric genes.