PLANTS HAVING INCREASED YIELD AND A METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

The present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having two WRKY domains or a homologue of such polypeptide. One such method comprises introducing into a plant a two-WRKY domain nucleic acid or variant thereof. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having introduced therein a two-WRKY domain nucleic acid or variant thereof, which plants have increased yield relative to control plants. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention. The invention additionally relates to specific nucleic acid sequences encoding for the aforementioned proteins having the aforementioned plant growth improving activity, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and plants containing said nucleic acid sequences.