US 12,410,439 B2
Reduced stature maize and mads-box transcription factors
Jeffrey Habben, Urbandale, IA (US); Benjamin P Weers, Polk City, IA (US); and Jingrui Wu, Johnston, IA (US)
Assigned to PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., Johnston, IA (US)
Appl. No. 17/757,595
Filed by PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., Johnston, IA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/064999
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/126797, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/949,206, filed on Dec. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0378000 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. A01H 6/46 (2018.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01)
CPC C12N 15/8262 (2013.01) [A01H 6/4684 (2018.05); Y02A 40/146 (2018.01)] 12 Claims
 
1. A corn plant comprising a stature reducing genetic modification and a yield enhancing genetic modification, wherein the yield enhancing genetic modification comprises a heterologous regulatory polynucleotide operably linked to a polynucleotide that encodes a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 99% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1 and wherein the corn plant exhibits a plant height reduction of about 5% to about 50% due to the introduced genetic modification at a genomic locus encoding a D8 polypeptide represented by SEQ ID NO: 6, when compared to a control corn plant not comprising the stature reducing genetic modification.