US 11,814,634 B2
Transformed plant and flowering regulation method using flowering-inducing gene
Akari Nakasone, Miyoshi (JP); Yasuyo Shimamoto, Nagakute (JP); Madoka Abe, Nagoya (JP); Satoshi Kondo, Miyoshi (JP); Sumire Fujiwara, Tsukuba (JP); Tomoko Niki, Tsukuba (JP); Kaoru Suzuki, Sapporo (JP); Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tsukuba (JP); and Yoshimi Nakano, Tsukuba (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/481,836.
Application 17/481,836 is a continuation of application No. 16/807,650, filed on Mar. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,214,814.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-039843 (JP), filed on Mar. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0064655 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01)
CPC C12N 15/827 (2013.01) 6 Claims
 
1. A transformed plant or transformed plant cell, wherein a flowering-inducing gene encoding the following protein (a) or (b) has been introduced thereinto:
(a) a protein comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2;
(b) a protein comprising an amino acid sequence having 98% or more identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 and having ability to induce flowering.