A method of producing a transgenic plant with decreased expression of endogenous fea3, which is a gene encoding a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence of at least 80% sequence identity, based on the Clustal W method of alignment, when compared to SEQ ID NO: 3 or 5, the method comprising: a. introducing into a regenerable plant cell a suppression recombinant DNA construct comprising an isolated polynucleotide operably linked, sense or antisense orientation, to a promoter functional in a plant, wherein the polynucleotide comprises: i. the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; ii. a nucleotide sequence with at least 90% sequence identity, based on the Clustal W method of alignment, when compared to SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; iii. a nucleotide sequence of at least 100 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; iv. a nucleotide sequence that can hybridize under stringent conditions with the nucleotide sequence of (i); or v. a modified plant miRNA precursor, wherein the precursor has been modified to replace the miRNA encoding region with a sequence designed to produce an miRNA directed to SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; b. regenerating a transgenic plant cell after step (a), wherein the transgenic plant comprises in its genome the recombinant DNA construct; and c. selecting a transgenic plant of (b), wherein the transgenic plant comprises the recombinant DNA construct and exhibits a decrease in expression of FEA3, when compared to a control plant not comprising the recombinant DNA construct. a. introducing into a regenerable plant cell a suppression recombinant DNA construct comprising an isolated polynucleotide operably linked, sense or antisense orientation, to a promoter functional in a plant, wherein the polynucleotide comprises: i. the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; ii. a nucleotide sequence with at least 90% sequence identity, based on the Clustal W method of alignment, when compared to SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; iii. a nucleotide sequence of at least 100 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; iv. a nucleotide sequence that can hybridize under stringent conditions with the nucleotide sequence of (i); or v. a modified plant miRNA precursor, wherein the precursor has been modified to replace the miRNA encoding region with a sequence designed to produce an miRNA directed to SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; i. the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; ii. a nucleotide sequence with at least 90% sequence identity, based on the Clustal W method of alignment, when compared to SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; iii. a nucleotide sequence of at least 100 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; iv. a nucleotide sequence that can hybridize under stringent conditions with the nucleotide sequence of (i); or v. a modified plant miRNA precursor, wherein the precursor has been modified to replace the miRNA encoding region with a sequence designed to produce an miRNA directed to SEQ ID NO:1, 2 or 4; b. regenerating a transgenic plant cell after step (a), wherein the transgenic plant comprises in its genome the recombinant DNA construct; and c. selecting a transgenic plant of (b), wherein the transgenic plant comprises the recombinant DNA construct and exhibits a decrease in expression of FEA3, when compared to a control plant not comprising the recombinant DNA construct.