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Transgenic plants that exhibit enhanced nitrogen assimilation

Patent ·
OSTI ID:20013222
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.
Research Organization:
US Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-92ER20071
Assignee:
PTO; EDB-00:006645
Patent Number(s):
NONE
Application Number:
Int. Cl. A01H 5/00; A01H 5/10; C12N 15/82; US 5,955,651/A/; 8-480,996
OSTI ID:
20013222
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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