Patent ID: 7195917

Claim:
A method of growing a transgenic plant comprising: providing a transgenic plant or a seed or seedling thereof comprising a transgene, the transgene comprising a promoter and, operably linked to the promoter, a sequence that encodes an enzyme that inactivates an endogenous gibberellin in a plant cell, causing reduced levels of the endogenous gibberellin in the plant cell, compared with an otherwise identical plant or seed or seedling thereof that lacks the transgene, wherein the sequence is SEQ ID NO: 62; applying a composition that comprises at least one GA compound that is metabolized by the seed or seedling to produce a product having gibberellin activity that is not inactivated by the enzyme to the transgenic plant or the seed or seedling thereof; and growing the transgenic plant or the seed or seedling thereof to produce a phenotypically normal transgenic plant.