Patent ID: 8362322
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: C07K,C12N

Abstract:
1. A method of increasing lignin content in a plant, said method comprising: a) introducing into a plant cell an isolated nucleic acid comprising a regulatory region operably linked to a polynucleotide encoding a lignin-modulating polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having 95% or greater sequence identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:149, said polypeptide having a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent epimerase/dehydratase domain; and b) selecting a plant produced from said plant cell that has at least a 35% increase in lignin content in a tissue of the plant as compared to the lignin content in tissue of a corresponding control plant that does not comprise said nucleic acid.