Increasing the total oil content of plants, useful e.g. in human or animal nutrition, by expressing a yeast transgene encoding glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase

摘要

Method for increasing the total oil content (TOC) in a plant (or its tissue, organs, parts, cells or replicative material) by: (a) transgenic expression of a yeast glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) gene (A) in a plant (or tissue etc.); and (b) selecting those plants with increased TOC. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) transgenic expression cassette (EC) that contains, under control of a plant-functional promoter, the nucleic acid encoding a yeast GPHD; (2) transgenic vectors that contain EC; and (3) transgenic plants, or their tissues etc., containing GPHD, EC or the vector of (2).