Method for speeding up plant growth and improving yield by introducing phosphatases in transgenic plant

摘要

Transgenic plants having increased growth rate, increased sugar content, and increase yield are disclosed, and methods for making the same. The transgenic plants have a gene coding for a phosphatase having a C-terminal motif under control of a heterologous promoter incorporated into the genomic DNA of the plant.

主权项

1. A method to make a transgenic plant comprising: introducing a phosphatase gene into a plant, the phosphatase gene encoding a polypeptide comprising SEQ ID NO: 2 or a polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 2; SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein introducing the phosphatase gene into the plant increases growth rate, sugar content, crop yield, or the combination thereof, relative to wild-type plants.