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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2008
Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Gentbrugge, BE;
Valerie Frankard, Waterloo, BE;
Yves Hatzfeld, Lille, FR;
Christophe Reuzeau, Tocan Saint Apre, FR;
Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Gentbrugge, BE;
Valerie Frankard, Waterloo, BE;
Yves Hatzfeld, Lille, FR;
Christophe Reuzeau, Tocan Saint Apre, FR;
BASF Plant Science GmbH, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Yield Enhancing Protein (YEP). The YEP is selected from a Nucleosome Assembly Protein 1-like polypeptide (NAP1-like), a Like Sm polypeptide (Lsm protein), a truncated Cyclin H (CycH) polypeptide, a Remorin polypeptide, and a DREB protein. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding such a YEP, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown YEP-encoding nucleic acids, and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.