Patent ID: 9422571
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: C12N,Y02A

Claim Text:
1. A method for producing kernels from a cereal plant, wherein said method comprises: (a) growing a transgenic cereal plant comprising a recombinant cassette comprising a polynucleotide encoding the maize glutamine synthetase GS1-3 isoenzyme having the sequence SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein said transgenic cereal plant overexpresses said GS1-3 isoenzyme when compared to a non-transgenic cereal plant, and wherein said overexpression results in an increased number of kernels when compared to said non-transgenic cereal plant, and wherein the transgenic cereal plant is grown under N suboptimal conditions, and (b) harvesting the kernels from said transgenic cereal plant.