US 12,241,073 B2
High fructan cereal plants
Colin Leslie Dow Jenkins, Adelaide (AU); Bryan Charles Clarke, Acton (AU); Zhongyi Li, Kaleen (AU); and Matthew Kennedy Morell, St Lucia (AU)
Assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, Acton (AU)
Filed by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Acton (AU)
Filed on Aug. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/462,700.
Application 17/462,700 is a division of application No. 15/671,970, filed on Aug. 8, 2017, granted, now 11,111,498.
Application 15/671,970 is a division of application No. 13/008,746, filed on Jan. 18, 2011, granted, now 9,752,157, issued on Sep. 5, 2017.
Application 13/008,746 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/AU2009/000911, filed on Jul. 16, 2009.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/135,361, filed on Jul. 18, 2008.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/135,111, filed on Jul. 17, 2008.
Claims priority of application No. 2009200577 (AU), filed on Feb. 13, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2022/0162627 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); G01N 33/50 (2006.01)
CPC C12N 15/8245 (2013.01) [G01N 33/50 (2013.01); G01N 2400/38 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of producing a high-fructan product, wherein the method comprises:
(i) obtaining or producing a hexaploid wheat plant or grain or flour therefrom, wherein the hexaploid wheat plant or grain is modified to comprise a homozygous null mutation in the wheat starch synthase IIa (SSIIa) gene of its A, B and D genomes, and wherein the wheat grain or flour comprises at least 3% fructan as a percentage of the wheat grain or flour weight; and
(ii) processing the plant, grain or flour to produce the product.