Patent ID: 9574202
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A23L,A23V,C07K,C12N

Claim:
1. A method for making a plant that is capable of producing a fruit with an increased level of anthocyanins, said method comprising introducing into at least one cell of a plant a heterologous polynucleotide construct, wherein the heterologous polynucleotide construct comprises a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: (a) the full-length coding sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, 3, 11, or 13; (b) a nucleotide sequence encoding the full-length amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2; and (c) a nucleotide sequence encoding an amino acid sequence comprising at least 98% identity to the full-length amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2; wherein a fruit produced by the plant comprises an increased level of anthocyanins when compared to a control fruit.