US 12,188,033 B2
Transgenic plants having increased tolerance to aluminum
Julissa Sosa, Northridge, CA (US); and Wuyi Wang, Newbury Park, CA (US)
Assigned to Ceres, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Filed by CERES, INC., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/552,771.
Application 17/552,771 is a division of application No. 16/575,893, filed on Sep. 19, 2019, granted, now 11,254,948.
Application 16/575,893 is a division of application No. 15/881,134, filed on Jan. 26, 2018, granted, now 10,472,646, issued on Nov. 12, 2019.
Application 15/881,134 is a division of application No. 14/355,530, granted, now 9,938,536, issued on Apr. 10, 2018, previously published as PCT/US2012/062977, filed on Nov. 1, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/554,788, filed on Nov. 2, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2022/0195451 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A23K 10/00 (2016.01); A23L 5/00 (2016.01); A23L 7/10 (2016.01); A23L 25/00 (2016.01); C07K 14/41 (2006.01); C07K 14/415 (2006.01)
CPC C12N 15/8271 (2013.01) [A23K 10/00 (2016.05); A23L 5/00 (2016.08); A23L 7/10 (2016.08); A23L 25/00 (2016.08); C07K 14/415 (2013.01); C12N 15/8216 (2013.01); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
 
1. A method of increasing plant yield when grown in soil containing elevated levels of Al3+, said method comprising growing a plant comprising an exogenous nucleic acid on soil having an elevated level of Al3+, said exogenous nucleic acid comprising a heterologous promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence, wherein the nucleotide sequence encodes a polypeptide having 95 percent or greater sequence identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 353, and selecting the plant for having increased plant weight when grown in soil containing the elevated level of Al3+ as compared to the corresponding plant weight a control plant that does not comprise said nucleic acid, wherein said plant is a switchgrass or rice plant, and wherein the elevated level of Al3+ is defined as a level of Al3+ that is phytotoxic and inhibits root growth in wild type control plants.