MOLECULAR CLONING OF BROWN-MIDRIB2 (bm2) GENE

摘要

The present invention relates to methods for altering the concentration or composition of lignin in a plant; a method of making a mutant plant having an altered level of MTHFR protein compared to that of a nonmutant plant; plants, mutant plants, and mutant plant seeds produced by these methods; a method of identifying a candidate plant suitable for breeding that displays an altered lignin concentration or composition phenotype; a transgenic plant having an altered level of MTHFR protein capable of determining the lignin concentration or composition in a plant compared to that of a nontransgenic plant; and seed produced from a transgenic plant.