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Title: Transgenic plants with enhanced growth characteristics

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.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1321919
Patent Number(s):
9434956
Application Number:
13/714,948
Assignee:
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC (Los Alamos, NM)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12N - MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES
C - CHEMISTRY C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY C12Y - ENZYMES
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2012 Dec 14
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Unkefer, Pat J., Anderson, Penelope S., and Knight, Thomas J. Transgenic plants with enhanced growth characteristics. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Unkefer, Pat J., Anderson, Penelope S., & Knight, Thomas J. Transgenic plants with enhanced growth characteristics. United States.
Unkefer, Pat J., Anderson, Penelope S., and Knight, Thomas J. Tue . "Transgenic plants with enhanced growth characteristics". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1321919.
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