ELEVATION OF OIL IN MONOCOT PLANTS

摘要

Methods of making crop plants having higher oil levels in their seeds by increasing glycolytic flux through over-expression of nucleic acids encoding phosphofructokinase are provided. The invention may further comprise the over- expression of nucleic acids encoding a pyruvate kinase to alter oil content in plant seeds, and monocot cells and plants transformed with phosphofructokinase, or phosphofructokinase and pyruvate kinase transgenes.