Compositions and Methods for Modulating Biomass in Energy Crops

Methods for modulating plant biomass are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include the step of modulating in a plant cell the expression of an UPBEAT1 gene product. Also provided are improved energy crop plants, and seeds and parts thereof, which contain a heterologous nucleic acid that encodes an UPBEAT1 gene product and/or that encodes an inhibitor of an UPBEAT1 gene product.

Patents:
WO 2,009,132,205

Inventor(s): BENFEY PHILIP N [US]; TSUKAGOSHI HIRONAKA T [US]

Type of Offer: Licensing



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