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Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006

Filed:

Aug. 25, 1999
Applicants:

Michael Meyrick Burrell, Cambridge, GB;

Amanda Pat Cambridge, York, GB;

Martin Jack Maunders, Cambridge, GB;

Simon Mcqueen-mason, York, GB;

Inventors:

Michael Meyrick Burrell, Cambridge, GB;

Amanda Pat Cambridge, York, GB;

Martin Jack Maunders, Cambridge, GB;

Simon McQueen-Mason, York, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 15/87 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01); A01H 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention relates to the isolation and characterisation of novel expansin gene sequences from heterologous and homologous tree species and re-introducing such novel genes into trees so as to alter expansin levels. Six novel genes have been identified.has also been transformed using the cucumber EX29 sequence (GenBank, Accession No. U30382-known as Cs-EXP1) (SEQ. ID. NO: 9). A change in the plant height and internode length was observed compared with control plants.


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