Genes and uses for plant enhancement

摘要

Transgenic seed for crops with enhanced agronomic traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA in the nucleus of cells of the seed where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more enhanced traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield. The present invention also provides recombinant DNA molecules for expression of a protein, and recombinant DNA molecules for suppression of a protein.

主权项

1. A plant cell nucleus with stably-integrated, recombinant DNA comprising a promoter that is functional in plant cells and that is operably linked to protein coding DNA encoding a protein having an amino acid sequence comprising a Pfam domain module zf-CCCH::KH—1::zf-CCCH;
wherein said plant cell nucleus is selected by screening a population of transgenic plants that have said recombinant DNA in its nuclei and express said protein for an enhanced trait as compared to control plants that do not have said recombinant DNA in their nuclei; and wherein said enhanced trait is selected from group of enhanced traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil.