BASF SE (20250059556). REGULATORY NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FOR MODIFYING GENE EXPRESSION IN CEREAL PLANTS

REGULATORY NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FOR MODIFYING GENE EXPRESSION IN CEREAL PLANTS

Organization Name

BASF SE

Inventor(s)

Mark Davey of Gent (BE)

Frank Meulewaeter of Gent (BE)

Jonny Jacobs of Gent (BE)

Andrea Ariani of Gent (BE)

Petrus Ouwerkerk of Gent (BE)

Michel Van Thournout of Gent (BE)

Katelijn D'halluin of Gent (BE)

REGULATORY NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FOR MODIFYING GENE EXPRESSION IN CEREAL PLANTS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250059556 titled 'REGULATORY NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES FOR MODIFYING GENE EXPRESSION IN CEREAL PLANTS

Original Abstract Submitted

the present invention relates to the field of plant molecular biology and provides materials and methods for modulating expression of a gene of interest in plants. in particular, the invention provides modified plant promoters or modified coding sequences having increased expression, for example, in developing spikes as well as methods for producing promoters or coding sequences having increased expression. the modified promoters comprise i) at least one binding site for an eil3 transcription factor and/or at least one binding site for a phd transcription factor and/or ii) one or more enhancer elements. moreover, the present invention concerns a nucleic acid molecule encoding a functional restorer polypeptide for wheat g-type cytoplasmic male sterility comprising in the coding sequence a mutated microrna (“mirna”) binding site. in some embodiments, said nucleic acid molecule is operably linked to the modified promoter of the present invention.