PLANTS HAVING MODIFIED GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS AND METHOD FORMAKING THE SAME

摘要

The present invention concerns a method for modifying the growth characteristics of plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a GRUBX protein and/or modulating activity and/or levels in a plant of a GRUBX protein. The present invention furthermore provides novel GRUBX proteins and nucleic acids encoding such proteins. The invention also relates to constructs comprising GRUBX encoding nucleic acids , and transgenic plants having modified growth characteristics, which plants have modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRUBX protein.