Method for altering the nutritional content of plant seed
CA 2274493 A1 · Owner: Hibberd, Kenneth A. · Inventors: Hibberd, Kenneth A.; Kirihara, Julie A.; Anthony, Janice
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The invention provides genetically engineered preselected DNA sequences and , methods of using them to alter the nutritional content of plant seed. Methods of the invention are directed to increasing the weight percent of at least one amino acid essential to the diet of animals or increasing the starch content , of a plant. One such method involves stably transforming a cell of a plant with a preselected DNA sequence encoding a RNA molecule substantially identical or complementary to a messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding a plant seed storage protein, preferably a seed storage protein which is deficient in at least one amino acid essential to the diet of animals. An alternative method …
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- Filed December 9, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 9, 2017.
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