The present invention provides a method for enhancing yield related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ELNINI (comprising an ELNINI signature sequence) polypeptide. The present invention also provides plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ELNINI polypeptide which plants have enhanced yield related traits relative to control plants. The present invention also provides constructs comprising ELNINI encoding nucleic acids useful in performing the methods of the present invention.