Patent ID: 8748699

Claim:
A method for enhancing yield-related traits in a plant relative to a control plant, comprising introducing and expressing in a plant a nucleic acid encoding a Terminal Flower 1-like (TFL1-like) polypeptide and selecting for a plant having enhanced yield-related traits, where the yield-related traits are selected from the group consisting of increased total seed weight, increased number of filled seeds per panicle, increased number of filled seeds, increased seed fill rate, increased number of flowers per panicle, increased harvest index, increased thousand kernel weight (TKW), and increased plant height, and wherein said nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of: (a) a nucleic acid comprising the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1; (b) a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and (c) a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 95% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.