METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING TRANSGENIC PLANT WITH IMPROVED AMINO ACID COMPOSITION AND YIELD

摘要

It is intended to provide a transgenic plant capable of accumulating free amino acids, in particular at least one free amino acid selected from among glutamic acid, asparagine, aspartic acid, serine, threonine, alanine and histidine in its edible part and a method of constructing the same. It is also intended to provide a method of elevating potato yield and a transgenic potato capable of giving an elevated yield. A sequence encoding glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) gene is transferred into a plant together with a regulatory sequence for the expression in plant cells and thus the GDH gene is expressed in excess.