Brassica pdhk gene

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The isolation, purification, characterization and use of a mitochondrial pyruvate, dehydrogenase kinase (PDHK) gene from Brassica spp.. Methods of regulating fatty acid, synthesis, seed oil content seed size/weight, flowering time, vegetative growth, respiration rate and, generation time using the gene and to tissues and plants transformed with the gene. Transgenic, plants, plant tissues and plant seeds having a genome containing an introduced Brassica DNA, characterized in that the sequence has been introduced in an anti-sense or sense orientation, and a, method of producing such plants and plant seeds.