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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Applicant:
Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Gentbrugge, BE;
Inventor:
Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Gentbrugge, BE;
Assignee:
CropDesign N.V., Zwijnaarde, BE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 15/10 (2006.01); C12N 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics relative to wild type plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing yield in plants grown under reduced nutrient availability, relative to corresponding wild type plants, comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a class I homeodomain leucine zipper (HDZip) hox5 polypeptide or a homologue thereof.