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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2002
Applicants:
Jitao Zou, Saskatoon, CA;
David C. Taylor, Saskatoon, CA;
Elizabeth-france Marillia, Asquith, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 (2006.01); A01H 5/10 (2006.01); C12N 15/92 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The isolation, purification, characterization and use of a mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDHK) gene fromspp. Methods of regulating fatty acid synthesis, seed oil content, seed size/weight, flowering time, vegetative growth, respiration rate and generation time using the gene and to tissues and plants transformed with the gene. Transgenic plants, plant tissues and plant seeds having a genome containing an introducedDNA, characterized in that the sequence has been introduced in an anti-sense or sense orientation, and a method of producing such plants and plant seeds.