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U.S. patent 7,012,171:  Modification of plant metabolism
Washington, DC
March 14, 2006
 
United States Patent 7,012,171
Burrell March 14, 2006

Modification of plant metabolism

Abstract

A transgenic plant is prepared by a method in which a plant cell is transformed with a chimaeric gene comprising a promoter and a gene encoding a polypeptide which displays the activity of an enzyme which regulates the amount of a metabolic intermediate in glycolysis or in a pathway for the synthesis or degradation of starch, sucrose or reducing sugar from a glycolytic intermediate.

Inventors: Burrell; Michael Meyrick (Derbyshire, GB)
Assignee: Advanced Technologies Cambridge Limited (Cambridge, GB)
Appl. No.: 196155
Filed: August 2, 2005
Foreign Application Priority Data

  Dec 21, 1989[GB] 8928937
  Jul 06, 1990[GB] 9014988
 
Current U.S. Class: 800/284; 800/287; 800/288; 800/317.2; 435/101; 435/194; 435/468
Current Intern'l Class: C12N 15/54    (20060101); C12N 15/82    (20060101); A01H 5/00     (20060101); C12P 19/04    (20060101)
Field of Search: 800/284,287,288,317.2 435/101,194,468

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