The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for modulating carbon partitioning in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for modulating carbon partitioning in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a particular type of NAC transcription factor. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a NAC transcription factor, which plants have modulated carbon partitioning relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
