GENES ENCODING STEROL DELTA-15 REDUCTASE IN PLANTS

摘要

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a stero l delta-14 reductase. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the sterol delta-14 reductase, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the sterol delta-14 reductase in a transformed host cell.