The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important characteristics in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for improving yield-related traits, such as enhanced yield and/or enhanced growth, or modified content of storage compounds in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a chloroplastic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (cpFBPase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a cpFBPase polypeptide, which plants have improved characteristics relative to control plants.
