COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MODULATING BIOMASS IN ENERGY CROPS

摘要

Methods for modulating plant biomass are provided. In some embodiments, the methods include the step of modulating in a plant cell the expression of an UPBEAT1 gene product. Also provided are improved energy crop plants, and seeds and parts thereof, which contain a heterologous nucleic acid that encodes an UPBEAT1 gene product and/or that encodes an inhibitor of an UPBEAT1 gene product.