US 11,807,875 B2
Feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferases
John Ralph, Madison, WI (US); Steven D. Karlen, Madison, WI (US); Rebecca Anne Smith, Madison, WI (US); Brian Fox, Madison, WI (US); Emily Beebe, Stoughton, WI (US); and Craig Bingman, Fitchburg, WI (US)
Assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US)
Filed by WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Madison, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/107,024.
Application 17/107,024 is a division of application No. 15/945,463, filed on Apr. 4, 2018, granted, now 10,883,089.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/481,281, filed on Apr. 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0207104 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); C12N 9/10 (2006.01)
CPC C12N 9/1029 (2013.01) [C12N 15/8255 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
 
1. A transgenic plant comprising an isolated nucleic acid molecule, wherein the isolated nucleic acid molecule comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 99% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4, wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter functional or active in a plant cell, and wherein expression of the polypeptide in the transgenic plant increases percent of monolignol ferulates in the transgenic plant's lignin as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking the isolated nucleic acid molecule and grown under identical conditions.