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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
May. 02, 2005
Roberto A. Gaxiola, Mansfield Center, CT (US);
Seth L. Alper, Boston, MA (US);
Gerald R. Fink, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Roberto A. Gaxiola, Mansfield Center, CT (US);
Seth L. Alper, Boston, MA (US);
Gerald R. Fink, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT (US);
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (US);
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a transgenic plant, comprising one or more plant cells transformed with exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant. Also encompassed by the present invention are transgenic progeny and seeds of the transgenic plants described herein. Progeny transgenic plants grown from seed are also described. Plant cells (e.g., root cells, stem cells, leaf cells) comprising exogenous nucleic acid which increases expression of vacuolar pyrophosphatase in the plant cells are also the subject of the present invention. Also encompassed by the present invention are methods of making a transgenic plant described herein. The present invention also relates to a method of increasing the yield of a plant, a method of making a plant which is larger than its corresponding wild type plant, and a method of producing a transgenic plant with increased salt tolerance.