CPC C12N 9/1029 (2013.01) [C12N 15/8255 (2013.01)] | 11 Claims |
1. A transgenic plant comprising an isolated nucleic acid molecule, wherein the isolated nucleic acid molecule comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide having p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase activity, wherein the polypeptide comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 95% amino acid sequence identity to the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:2, wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a heterologous promoter functional or active in a plant cell, and wherein expression of the polypeptide in the transgenic plant increases percent of monolignol coumarates in the transgenic plant's lignin as compared to a control plant of the same species lacking the isolated nucleic acid molecule and grown under identical conditions.
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