US 7,592,436 B2
	Gene encoding a protein having aurone synthesis activity
Keiko Sakakibara, Muko (Japan); Yuko Fukui, Mishima-gun (Japan); Yoshikazu Tanaka, Otsu (Japan); Takaaki Kusumi, Suita (Japan); Masako Mizutani, Kyoto (Japan); and Toru Nakayama, Sendai (Japan)
Assigned to International Flower Developments Proprietary Limited, Victoria (Australia)
Filed on Aug. 22, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/207,721.
Application 11/207721 is a continuation of application No. 09/446089, granted, now 6,982,325, previously published as PCT/JP99/02045, filed on Apr. 16, 1999.
Claims priority of application No. 10/107296 (JP), filed on Apr. 17, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2006/0020123 A1, Jan. 26, 2006
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C07H 21/04 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 5/14 (2006.01); C12N 5/16 (2006.01); C12N 1/11 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 536—23.2  [536/23.6; 435/320.1; 435/419; 435/325; 435/69.1; 800/295]

5 Claims

1. An isolated nucleic acid encoding a polyphenol oxidase (PPO) having an amino acid sequence identity of at least 90% relative to SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the nucleic acid is capable of hybridizing under stringent conditions with a nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 1.