Patent ID: 9657304
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: C07K,C12N,C12Y

Claim:
1. A method of increasing oil content in vegetative tissues of a plant, comprising genetically modifying the plant to comprise a plant expression system, or inducing expression of a plant expression system, wherein the plant expression system comprises a combination of: (a) a first expression cassette comprising a nucleic add segment encoding a WRINKLED 1 transcription factor with at least 95% sequence identity to the amino add sequences of SEQ ID NO: 7, 9, or 11, and (b) a second expression cassette comprising a nucleic add segment encoding an inhibitory nucleic add comprising a nucleic add with at least 95% sequence identity to at least 20 nucleotides of the nucleotide sequence SEQ ID NO: 2 or 6 encoding an ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases; wherein the plants modified to contain or induced to express the plant expression system produce at least 10-fold more oil in vegetative tissues than a plant of the same species that has not been modified to contain the plant expression system.