Patent ID: 6211432
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: C12N

Abstract:
A method of producing transgenic plants within which the biosynthesis of lignins is regulated either in the sense of an increase, or in the sense of a reduction of the lignin levels produced, relative to the normal lignin levels produced in plants comprising:transforming plant cells with a recombinant nucleotidc sequence comprising one or more coding regions, wherein said coding regions are selected from the group consisting of:the nuclcotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, coding for a mRNA, said mRNA coding for the Cinnamoyl CoA Reductase (CCR) of lucerne represented by SEQ ID NO: 2; andthe nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 3, coding for a mRNA, said mRNA coding for the CCR of maize represented by SEQ ID NO: 4, andthe nucleotide sequence fully complementary to that represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, or SEQ ID NO: 3.