The present invention relates to methods of manipulating senescence in plants. The invention also relates to vectors useful in such methods, transformed plants with modified senescence characteristics and plant cells, seeds and other parts of such plants.本發明有關操縱植物老化之方法。本發明亦有關可用於此方法之載體、具修飾的老化特徵之轉形植物以及此植物之植物細胞、種子和其它部分。