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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2002
Yoshihisa Kasukabe, Shiga-ken, JP;
Izumi Ihara, Shiga-ken, JP;
Yoshihiko Maekawa, Shiga-ken, JP;
Randy Dale Allen, Lubbock, TX (US);
Yoshihisa Kasukabe, Shiga-ken, JP;
Izumi Ihara, Shiga-ken, JP;
Yoshihiko Maekawa, Shiga-ken, JP;
Randy Dale Allen, Lubbock, TX (US);
Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka-fu, JP;
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (US);
Abstract
Cotton plants of the genuswith improved cotton fiber characteristics are disclosed. The cotton plant has an expression cassette containing a gene coding for an enzyme selected from the group consisting of endoxyloglucan transferase, catalase and peroxidase so that the gene is expressed in cotton fiber cells to improve the cotton fiber characteristics. Also disclosed is a method for producing cotton fibers with improved fiber characteristics from these cotton plants.