HOX25 GENE AND TRANSGENIC PLANT TRANSFORMED WITH HOX25-OVEREXPRESSION VECTOR

摘要

The present invention relates to a plant having an increased number of tillers by transforming the plant with a recombinant expression vector containing a HOX25 gene having a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1. The plant of the present invention is characterized in that, in addition to the increase in the number of tillers, the flowering time of the plant is advanced by at least one week. The present invention also relates to a method for increasing the number of tillers by overexpressing, in a plant, a gene composed of a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, encoding HOX25 protein composed of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.