Plants with improved nitrogen utilization and stress tolerance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8692070
APP PUB NO 20110252503A1
SERIAL NO

12916854

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The present invention relates to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, stress tolerance, and/or alleviating a limitation such that yield is increased, or a combination of these and that have been transformed using a novel vector construct including a synthetic N-acetyl glutamate kinase (NAGK) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also includes the overexpression and enzymatic characterization of an arginine-insensitive NAGK isolated from a bacterial strain that improves stress tolerance and nitrogen uptake, metabolism or both. In various embodiments, the vector construct includes one or more nucleic acid sequences including SEQ ID NO: 1. The invention also relates to isolated vectors for transforming plants and to antibodies used for detecting transformed plants. The invention also relates to methods of expressing in plants the nucleic acid molecules corresponding to the nucleic acid sequences that modulate nitrogen use in plants or are modulated by nitrogen conditions.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Berg, Brian Vande Research Triangle Park, US 8 83
Duck, Nicholas Research Triangle Park, US 10 78
Hammer, Philip Research Triangle Park, US 1 1
McLaren, James Chesterfield, US 9 10
Schouten, Laura Research Triangle Park, US 7 16

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