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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2009
Asitava Basu, Kharagpur, IN;
Mrinal Kumar Maiti, Kharagpur, IN;
Satarupa Kar, Kharagpur, IN;
Soumitra Kumar Sen, Kharagpur, IN;
Banibrata Pandey, Hyderabad, IN;
Asitava Basu, Kharagpur, IN;
Mrinal Kumar Maiti, Kharagpur, IN;
Satarupa Kar, Kharagpur, IN;
Soumitra Kumar Sen, Kharagpur, IN;
Banibrata Pandey, Hyderabad, IN;
Nagarjuna Energy Private Limited, Hyderabad, IN;
Abstract
The present invention provides a sweet sorghum plant characterized by altered lignin content and/or altered lignin composition compared to a wild plant and this is achieved by manipulating the expression of caffeoylCoA-O-methyltransferae (CCoAOMT) in particular and optionally caffeic acid-O-methyltranferase (COMT) in sweet sorghum by incorporation of a construct comprising an isolated DNA sequence represented by SEQ ID NO 2 and optionally SEQ ID NO 1.