Plants having enhanced yield-related traits and a method for making the same

摘要

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a FSM1 -like (Fruit Sant/Myb) polypeptide, or a PIF3-like (PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR) polypeptide, or an Uroporphyrinogen III decarboxylase (UROD) polypeptide, or an AS-MTT (Abiotic Stress Membrane Tethered Transcription factor) polypeptide, or an EXO-1 polypeptide, or a YiAP2 (Yield increasing Apetala 2) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a FSM1 -like polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.