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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2002
Applicant:
Donald E. Nelson, Stonington, CT (US);
Inventor:
Donald E. Nelson, Stonington, CT (US);
Assignee:
Monsanto Technology LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid sequence from a soybean plant () encoding an ethylene receptor polypeptide. The present invention also relates to methods for reducing an ethylene-induced abscission of reproductive structures by producing a transformed plant containing a modified ethylene receptor gene. The transformed plants herein produced demonstrate yield enhancement at their maturity.