Potatoes featuring bulbs with increased output and increased starch contents as well as increased starch contents per plant, their progeny, method for producing such potatoes and method for manufacture of starch

摘要

Potato (A), having a greater yield of tubers than non-transformed potatoes grown under the same conditions, includes a gene (I) encoding a DNA-binding protein (II) of the Dof family. Independent claims are also included for: (1) similar potato (A1) having a higher content of starch in the tubers and higher starch content per plant; (2) descendants of (A) or (A1); (3) producing (A) or (A1) by introducing (I) into a potato; and (4) producing starch from the tubers of (A), (A1) or their descendants.