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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2000
Methods for transformation of plants, transformed plants and processes for preparation of polyesters
Applicant:
Inventors:
Isamu Yamaguchi, Saitama, JP;
Hideo Nakashita, Tokyo, JP;
Keiko Yoshioka, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiharu Doi, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Riken, Saitama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/00 ; C12P 7/62 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 5/04 ; C12N 5/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P 1/00 ; C12P 7/62 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 5/04 ; C12N 5/10 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for the transformation of a plant characterized by ligating an operon to a vector, the operon containing a promoter and 2-100 genes of interest, and integrating the resulting recombinant vector into a plastid chromosome, to a transformed plant obtained by the method, and the a process for preparing a polyester characterized by culturing or cultivating the transformed plant and collecting the polyester from the cultured or cultivated plant.