Generation of plants with altered oil content
View Patent ↗The present invention is directed to plants that display an altered oil content phenotype due to altered expression of a HIO1004 nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an altered oil content phenotype.
1. A transgenic plant comprising a plant transformation vector comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, whereby the transgenic plant has a high oil phenotype relative to a plant of the same species not comprising the plant transformation vector.
2. The transgenic plant of claim 1 , which is selected from the group consisting of rapeseed, soy, corn, sunflower, cotton, cocoa, safflower, oil palm, coconut palm, flax, castor and peanut.
3. A plant part obtained from the plant according to claim 1 , wherein said plant part comprises said plant transformation vector.
4. The plant part of claim 3 , which is a seed.
5. A method of producing oil comprising growing the transgenic plant of claim 1 and recovering oil from said transgenic plant.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the oil is recovered from a seed of the plant, wherein said seed comprises said plant transformation vector.
7. A method of producing a high oil phenotype in a plant, said method comprising:
a) introducing into progenitor cells of the plant a plant transformation vector comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, to produce transformed cells overexpressing the polypeptide;
b) growing the transformed progenitor cells to produce a transgenic plant, wherein said polynucleotide sequence is expressed, and
c) identifying said transgenic plant that exhibits a high oil phenotype relative to a plant of the same species not comprising the plant transformation vector.
8. A plant obtained by a method of claim 7 .
9. The plant of claim 8 , which is selected from the group consisting of rapeseed, soy, corn, sunflower, cotton, cocoa, safflower, oil palm, coconut palm, flax, castor and peanut.