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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2015
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Jay Chen, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Lee E. Gunter, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Sara Jawdy, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Wellington Muchero, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Gerald Tuskan, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Jianjun Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Priya Ranjan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Stephen P. DiFazio, Morgantown, VA (US);
Anthony C. Bryan, Knoxville, TN (US);
UT-BATTELLE, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides plants having desirable levels of lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens; methods of selecting plants with such desirable levels of lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens; methods of genetically modifying plants to modulate lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens; and uses of such plants. The inventors have determined that the expression and/or activity of POPTR_0014s08530, a gene encoding an/CtBP transcription factor, modulates lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens in plants. Plants with lignin synthesis, sugar release, S/G ratio, and resistance to stress and pathogens, based on modulation of the expression or activity of the POPTR_0014s08530 gene, have divergent uses including pulp and paper production, and ethanol/biofuel production.