Transgenic plants that exhibit enhanced nitrogen assimilation

Coruzzi, Gloria M.; Brears, Timothy

Transgenic plants that exhibit enhanced nitrogen assimilation

Patent · Tue Mar 08 04:00:00 EST 2005

OSTI ID:1175263

Coruzzi, Gloria M.; Brears, Timothy

The present invention relates to a method for producing plants with improved agronomic and nutritional traits. Such traits include enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and utilization capacities, faster and more vigorous growth, greater vegetative and reproductive yields, and enriched or altered nitrogen content in vegetative and reproductive parts. More particularly, the invention relates to the engineering of plants modified to have altered expression of key enzymes in the nitrogen assimilation and utilization pathways. In one embodiment of the present invention, the desired altered expression is accomplished by engineering the plant for ectopic overexpression of one of more the native or modified nitrogen assimilatory enzymes. The invention also has a number of other embodiments, all of which are disclosed herein.

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Research Organization:: New York University, New York, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-92ER20071

Assignee:: New York University (New York, NY)

Patent Number(s):: 6,864,405

Application Number:: 09/605,521

OSTI ID:: 1175263

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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