Patent ID: 8492612

Claim:
A method of producing a transgenic plant having a modified level of a seed storage compound or seed yield comprising, transforming a plant cell with an expression vector comprising a lipid metabolism protein (LMP) nucleic acid and generating from the plant cell a transgenic plant, wherein the nucleic acid encodes a polypeptide that functions as a modulator of a seed storage compound or seed yield in the plant, and wherein the LMP nucleic acid comprises a nucleic acid sequence comprising a) the isolated nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 7; b) an isolated nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8; c) an isolated nucleic acid having at least 85% sequence identity with the nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 7; d) a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 85% sequence identity to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8; e) a first nucleic acid that hybridizes under stringent conditions to a second nucleic acid comprising the full-length nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7 or to a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 8, wherein the stringent conditions comprise hybridization in a 6× sodium chloride/sodium citrate (SSC) solution at about 45° C., followed by at least one wash in a 0.2×SSC, 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solution at 65° C.; or f) on a nucleic acid complementary to the nucleic acid of a) or b).