Los Alamos National Security, LLC;University of Maine System Board of Trustees
发明人:
Pat J. Unkefer,Penelope S. Anderson,Thomas J. Knight
申请号：
US15256721
公开号：
US09862964B2
申请日:
2016.09.05
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.
