PLANTS HAVING IMPROVED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS UNDER REDUCED NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY 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 improving plant growth characteristics relative to wild type plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing yield in plants grown under reduced nutrient availability, relative to corresponding wild type plants,comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a class I homeodomain leucine zipper (HDZip) hox5 polypeptide or a homologue thereof.