CPC C12N 9/22 (2013.01) [C12N 15/8257 (2013.01)] | 10 Claims |
1. A plant cell, wherein the plant cell is part of a, plant, seed or other plant part, said plant cell containing a nucleic acid encoding an angiogenin, wherein said nucleic acid encoding an angiogenin comprises
(a) a C-terminal plant signal peptide that when expressed as the C-terminus of an angiogenin protein drives angiogenin accumulation in the plant cell to a sub-cellular component, and
(b) a nucleotide sequence encoding a functional angiogenin protein selected from the group consisting of:
(i) SEQ ID NO: 52, and
(ii) variants of SEQ ID NO: 52, having at least 98% sequence identity to the full length of SEQ ID NO: 52, and
wherein said plant is selected from the group consisting of a grass, a forage legume, soybean, lupin, peas, lentils, chickpeas, vegetable brassica, lettuce, spinach, bananas, citrus, strawberries, apples, oil palm, linseed, cottonseed and safflower.
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