METHOD FOR IMPROVING CROP PRODUCTIVITY

摘要

Plants and plant cells derived therefrom are disclosed having one or more improved or introduced desirable traits such as increased plant biomass including both increased shoot and root growth and increased seed yield. Also disclosed is a method for the production of plants with increased cold tolerance, salt tolerance, drought tolerance, and resistance to parasitic plants. Plants can be produced which have an exogenous polynucleotide molecule encoding a glycosyltransferase (UGT) and/or an exogenous polynucleotide molecule which increases transcription of an endogenous UGT.

主权项

1. A plant cell of, or derived from, a plant comprising an exogenous polynucleotide molecule encoding a uridine diphosphate glucose (UDP) glycosyltransferase (UGT) and/or an exogenous polynucleotide molecule which increases transcription of an endogenous gene encoding a UGT, wherein said UGT is a UGT which glycosylates one or more strigolactone or strigolactone-like compound (ie an SL-UGT).