Patent ID: 7897760
Filing Date: 2011-03-01
Classification: A23B,A23L,C07K,C08B,C12N,C12P

Abstract:
1. A method for the production of starch, comprising isolating starch from a transgenic plant comprising a transgenic plant cell transformed with a nucleic acid encoding a protein that is present in plant cells in starch granule-bound form as well as in soluble form and that is involved in the phosphorylation of starch when expressed in plants and/or that increases the phosphorylation of glycogen when expressed in (a) a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2, (b) a nucleic acid comprising the coding region of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, (c) a nucleic acid that hybridizes to the nucleic acid molecule of (a) or (b) under stringent conditions, (d) a nucleic acid the nucleotide sequence of which is degenerate as a result of the genetic code to a nucleotide sequence of the nucleic acid molecule of (a), (b) or (c), (e) a nucleic acid wherein said nucleic acid molecule exhibits a sequence identity of at least 60% to a nucleic acid molecule of (a) or (b), and (f) a fragment or allelic variant of the nucleic acid of (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), wherein the fragment is of sufficient length to encode a protein that is present in plant cells in starch granule-bound form as well as in soluble form and that is involved in the phosphorylation of starch when expressed in plants and/or that increases the phosphorylation of glycogen when expressed in