TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS
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    发明公开
    TRANSGENIC PLANTS WITH ENHANCED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS 审中-公开
    具有扩展生长因子的转基因植物

    公开(公告)号:EP2334166A2

    公开(公告)日:2011-06-22

    申请号:EP09810728.7

    申请日:2009-08-31

    IPC分类号: A01H5/00

    摘要: 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.