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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Los Alamos National Security, Llc, Los Alamos, NM (US);
University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Bangor, ME (US);
Pat J. Unkefer, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Penelope S. Anderson, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Thomas J. Knight, Raymond, ME (US);
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (US);
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Bangor, ME (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.