Patent ID: 8633355

Claim:
A construct comprising a substantially purified or isolated nucleic acid encoding a MYB protein, or a nucleic acid which is complementary or antisense to a sequence encoding a MYB protein, said nucleic acid or nucleic acid fragment being selected from the group consisting of: (a) a nucleic acid or nucleic acid fragment comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID Nos: 60, 62, 63 and 64; (b) a variant of a sequence in (a) encoding a protein with MYB activity and having at least 95% nucleic acid identity to the sequence in (a), wherein the variant sequence differs from the sequence in (a) of which it is a variant such that any changes in the amino acid sequence of the encoded protein are conservative amino acid substitutions; (c) the complement of a sequence recited in (a) or (b), wherein the complement has the same length as the sequence in (a) or (b) of which it is the complement; and (d) a sequence antisense to a sequence recited in (a) or (c), said antisense sequence having a length of at least 30 nucleotides, wherein the entire length of the antisense sequence is antisense to a contiguous region in the sequence recited in (a) or (c), said contiguous region being of equal length to the antisense sequence.