Patent ID: 7598429

Claim:
A method for producing a transgenic plant having a larger size than a wild-type plant of the same species, the method steps comprising: (a) producing a nucleic acid construct encoding a polypeptide comprising a conserved domain with at least 69% sequence identity to the conserved domain of amino acid coordinates 11-80 of SEQ ID NO: 66, wherein the polypeptide has a property of SEQ ID NO: 66 of increasing size in a plant relative to a wild-type plant, wherein percent sequence identity is detemiined with a BLASTp algorithm with default settings of a wordlength (W) of 3, an expectation (E) of 10, and the BLOSUM62 scoring matrix; and (b) introducing the nucleic acid construct into a target plant to produce a transgenic plant; wherein the polypeptide is overexpressed in the transgenic plant and said overexpression results in the transgenic plant having larger size than the wild-type plant.