| US 7,576,260 B2 | ||
| Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics | ||
| Julissa Sosa, Northridge, Calif. (US); and Greg Nadzan, Woodland Hills, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Ceres, Inc., Thousand Oaks, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 27, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/140,347. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/575309, filed on May 27, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0294622 A1, Dec. 28, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01); A01H 5/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 800—278 [800/298; 435/419] | 3 Claims |
| 1. A method for increasing pH tolerance or phosphate use efficiency in a plant comprising
(1) transforming a plant with a recombinant DNA construct comprising a nucleic acid encoding a pH tolerance or phosphate use
efficiency component operably linked to a plant promoter so that the pH tolerance or phosphate use efficiency component is
ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plant and
(2) selecting a transgenic plant that exhibits:
i) higher tolerance to high pH,
ii) higher tolerance to low phosphate concentration, or
iii) higher tolerance to low nitrogen concentration than a progenitor plant which does not contain the construct, when the
transgenic plant and the progenitor plant are cultivated under identical environmental conditions, and wherein the pH or phosphate
use efficiency component is a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2.
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