1105 results about "Arabidopsis sp." patented technology

The present invention is in the field of plant biochemistry and genetics. More specifically the invention relates to nucleic acid sequences from plant cells, in particular, genomic DNA sequences from Arabidopsis thaliana plants. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules present in non-coding regions as well as nucleic acid molecules that encode proteins and fragments of proteins. In addition, the invention also encompasses proteins and fragments of proteins so encoded and antibodies capable of binding these proteins or fragments. The invention also relates to methods of using the nucleic acid molecules, proteins and fragments of proteins, and antibodies, for example for genome mapping, gene identification and analysis, plant breeding, preparation of constructs for use in plant gene expression, and transgenic plants.

The invention discloses a sgRNA sequence for specifically targeting an arabidopsis ILK2 gene and application of the sgRNA sequence. The nucleotide sequence of the sgRNA sequence is represented by SEQ ID NO.1. Two single-chain oligo DNA sequences are designed and synthesized according to a sgRNA guide sequence, a double chain is formed through annealing and is linked with a Cas9 carrier, a sgRNA coding sequence and a CRISPR system are introduced into Arabidopsis by using an agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation technique, a target sequence is shorn by a Cas9 protein under the guidance of sgRNA, and therefore, the knockout of an ILK2 gene is realized. According to the sgRNA sequence provided by the invention, the ILK2 gene can be knocked out or edited by virtue of a CRISPR-Cas9 system, so as to analyze the functions of the arabidopsis ILK2 gene.

The invention discloses three novel cotton ABF/AREB/ABI5/DPBF type transcription factors GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5, and coding genes and application thereof. Amino acid sequences of the GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5 are shown as SEQ ID NO: 2, 5 and 8 respectively. Nucleotide sequences of the coding genes GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5 are shown as SEQ ID NO: 1, 4 and 7 respectively. The invention also discloses the structural characteristics on genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and a ribonucleic acid (RNA) editing law of reading frame regions of the coding genes GhABF2, GhABF3 and GhABI5. The invention also discloses the cotton expression characteristics and yeast expression characteristics of the three genes and the characteristic that the three genes can improve the drought resistance of arabidopsis thaliana. The genes provide gene resources for culturing a plant variety resistant to abiotic stress, and have great significance for improving the abiotic stress resistance of plants.

The invention relates to Bacillus pumilus NMCC 46, which is preserved in CGMCC with preservation date as November 2, 2009, and preservation number as CGMCC No.3378. The Bacillus pumilus NMCC 46 CGMCC No.3378 in the invention is a biological control bacillus separated from grass root surrounding soil near Namco Lake in Tibet, which can grow at 10 DEG C, is favorable for exerting growth promotion and biological control effects, can restrain soybean root pythium myriotylum and saccharomycetes, can boost growth of Arabidopsis and soybean, has a prevention and control effects on soybean root pythium myriotylum as high as 85%, can increase yield of soybean to 24%, and has good application prospect.

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT (Asparatate AminoTransferase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown ASPAT-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention. Furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a MYB91 like transcription factor (MYB91 ) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding an MYB91 polypeptide, which plants have increased yield- related traits relative to control plants. The invention additionally relates to nucleic acid sequences, nucleic acid constructs, vectors and plants containing said nucleic acid sequences. Even furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving various plant growth characteristics by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a GASA (Gibberellic Acid-Stimulated Arabidopsis). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GASA, which plants have improved growth characteristics relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention. Yet furthermore, the present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an AUX/IAA (auxin/indoleacetic acid) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding IAA polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs comprising AUX/IAA-encoding nucleic acids, useful in performing the methods of the invention.

The invention relates to a method for increasing the contents of tanshinone and salvianolic acid in a salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root by using a transgene AtMYC2, belonging to the technical field of gene engineering. The method comprises the steps of constructing a high-efficiency expression vector of a plant by using an arabidopsis transcription factor AtMYC2, and carrying out genetic transformation on salvia miltiorrhiza leaves to obtain a gene AtMYC2 overexpressed transgenetic salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root; analyzing the expression of AtMYC2 in the transgenetic salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root and related genes in biosynthetic pathways of tanshinone and salvianolic acid through qRT-PCR; measuring the contents of tanshinone and salvianolic acid in the transgenetic salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root by using a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC); and measuring the antioxidant activity of tanshinone and salvianolic acid in the transgenetic salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root by using a DPPH free radical scavenging method. The invention provides the method for simultaneously increasing the contents of tanshinone and salvianolic acid in salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root and also provides a novel high-quality raw material for producing tanshinone and salvianolic acid with important clinic demands so as to have the positive promoting significance and application value for relieving the problem that the drug resources of tanshinone and salvianolic acid are short.

The invention discloses a method for predicting an N6-methyladenosine modification site in RNA based on stacking integration, belonging to the field of systems biology. The method comprises the following steps: extracting RNA sequence features of three species, namely saccharomyces cerevisiae, homo sapiens and arabidopsis thaliana through six feature extraction methods, and conducting feature fusion to obtain an initial feature space of an original data set; performing dimensionality reduction on the initial feature space by using an elastic network, eliminating redundant and noise features, and reserving important features related to model classification so as to obtain an optimal feature set; inputting optimal feature subsets and corresponding category labels into stacking integration for model training, and evaluating the prediction performance of a model in combination with evaluation indexes to obtain a prediction model; and inputting a to-be-predicted RNA sequence in a test set into the prediction model, predicting the m6A site and outputting the m6A site. The prediction accuracy of the model on the test set reaches 92.30% and 87.06% respectively, and the model has good development potential in the aspect of cross-species prediction and is expected to become a useful tool for identifying the m6A site.

The invention clones and identifies the gene of control rice stem fragility from rice brisk stem brittle culml(bcl), the gene is named as BCl. Transgenics function complementary experiment testifies that BCl has the function of control rice stem mechanism intensity. The gene series analysis testifies that the protein has 60.7 homologisation with the COBRA protein encoded by COB. The observation and the physical standards also testify that the cloned gene has function of adjusting the thickness of the plant cell wall and the supporting quality of plant stem.

The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating nucleotide sequences with seed-preferential or seed-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from a tonoplast intrinsic protein, said gene being selected from the group consisting of the Arabidopsis thaliana tonoplast intrinsic protein alpha described by the GenBank Arabidopsis thaliana genome loci At1g73190 and its orthologous genes from Brassica napus and Linum usitatissimum.

The invention relates to the technical field of plant genetic engineering, and particularly discloses an application of a corn CIPK42 protein and a coding gene of the corn CIPK42 protein in regulationand control of salt stress tolerance of plants. The corn ZmCIPK42 gene is found to be able to positively regulate and control the salt tolerance of the plants; and the salt tolerance of the plants can be effectively improved by increasing of the expression quantity of the ZmCIPK42 gene. According to the invention, transgenic corn and arabidopsis thaliana plants with ZmCIPK42 overexpression are constructed; and compared with a non-transgenic wild type, the transgenic corn and arabidopsis thaliana plants are significantly improved in salt tolerance and growth. Discovery of the salt-tolerant function of the ZmCIPK42 gene provides a novel gene target and resource for cultivation of salt-tolerant plant varieties, is of great significance to research of a salt-tolerant molecular mechanism of the plants, and lays a certain theoretical foundation for research of a salt stress response mechanism of the plants and a molecular mechanism of resisting adverse environments.

This invention discloses a method for preparing rice gene WRKY45 and its applications. This invention successfully separates gene WRKY45 from rice, determines its nucleotide sequence, and deduces its amino acid sequence. Gene functional analysis shows that rice gene WRKY45 can effectively improve the disease and drought resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana, rice, economic crops, horticultural plants, and pasture grass, thus has wide potential applications.

The invention discloses a gene for resisting sclerotinia rot of cabbage type rape and promoting rape seed germination and application thereof and specifically relates to an AtGDSL gene capable of improving resistance of plants to sclerotinia sclerotiorum biotic stress and promoting rape seed germination. Verification is carried out on the function of the AtGDSL gene in improvement of resistance of plants to sclerotinia sclerotiorum biotic stress and promotion of rape seed germination, and application of the gene is also verified. According to the invention, the exogenous Arabidopis thaliana AtGDSL gene is introduced into a rape plant through a genetic engineering technological means, and after excess expression of the exogenous Arabidopis thaliana AtGDSL gene in the cabbage type rape, the rape plant has substantially improved sclerotinia rot resistance and seed germination capability; and the AtGDSL gene exerts obvious resistance effect on sclerotinia sclerotiorum, can be applied to stress resistance breeding of plants, improves stress resistance of the plants and improves the speed of seed germination, thereby providing excellent breeding materials for large-scale mechanical production of rape.

This invention provides expressible polynucleotides, which can express a target protein or polypeptide. Synthetic mRNA constructs for producing a protein or polypeptide can contain one or more 5′ UTRs, where a 5′ UTR may be expressed by a gene of a plant. In some embodiments, a 5′ UTR may be expressed by a gene of a member of Arabidopsis genus. The synthetic mRNA constructs can be used as pharmaceutical agents for expressing a target protein or polypeptide in vivo.

The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with meristem-preferential or meristem-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At2g02180, At5g54510, At2g26970, At2g01180, At3g45560, At4g00580, At1g54480, or At4g11490, or the Arabidopsis thaliana genomic sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 35 or 36.

The invention discloses a plant stress tolerance-related protein GmNF-YC9 as well as an encoding gene and an application thereof. As shown in experiments, in a drought tolerance test, the survival rate of T3 generation of homozygous transgenic plants obtained by transforming a recombinant expression vector pBI121-GmNF-YC9 of a DAN molecule expressed by 34th to 897th nucleotide sequences in a sequence 2 in a sequence table into arabidopsis is 90.2%, and the survival rates of wild plants and transgenic empty vector plants are respectively 27.2% and 28.4%; and in a salt-tolerant germination rate test, the germination rate of the T3 generation of homozygous transgenic plants is 90.4%, and the germination rates of the wild plants and the transgenic empty vector plants are respectively 65.8% and 66.2%. The GmNF-YC9 protein and the encoding gene thereof provided by the invention have great significance for improving the stress resistance of plants.

The invention discloses a nitrilase N1 derived from pantoea sp.AS-PWVM4 and a gene thereof, a nitrilase N2 derived from arabidopsis thaliana and a gene thereof, a nitrilase N3 derived from acidovoraxfacilis 72W and a gene thereof, a nitrilase N4 derived from leptolyngbya sp. and a gene thereof, a nitrilase N5 derived from brassica oleracea var.oleracea and a gene thereof and a nitrilase N6 derived from camelina sativa and a gene thereof, and a method for preparing paracyanobenzoic acid as p-aminomethylbenzoic acid intermediate by using the nitrilase as a biological catalyst; resting cells ofthe corresponding nitrilases can be used for catalyzing 100g/L of substrate; the conversion rate is greater than 99%; the method has the obvious characteristics of mild reaction conditions, no pollution and simple process route, and has broad industrial application prospects.

The invention belongs to the field of biochemical engineering and particularly relates to a building method of saccharomyces cerevisiae engineered strains capable of synthesizing glycyrrhetinic acid. The building method includes: beta-amyrin synthase gene GgbAS from Glycyrrhiza glabra, cytochrome P450 oxidases CYP88D6 and CYP72A154, cytochrome P450 oxidoreductases CPR1 and CPR2 from Arabidopsis thaliana are used to build gene expression cassettes, the gene expression cassettes are co-transformed in saccharomyces cerevisiae CEN.PK2-1C, and the saccharomyces cerevisiae engineered strains with complete glycyrrhetinic acid biosynthetic pathways are assembled and formed by the homologous recombination ability of the saccharomyces cerevisiae. By the method, the complete glycyrrhetinic acid biosynthetic pathways are introduced in the saccharomyces cerevisiae engineered strains, the glycyrrhetinic acid can be produced through fermentation, and artificial synthesizing of the glycyrrhetinic acid in the saccharomyces cerevisiae is achieved.

The invention discloses application of a glycosyltransferase gene UGT85A5 of Arabidopsis thaliana to the improvement of salt tolerance of plants. A nucleotide sequence of the glycosyltransferase gene UGT85A5 is shown as SEQ ID No.1; and the glycosyltransferase gene UGT85A5 is cloned from the Arabidopsis thaliana by a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) technology. The gene UGT85A5 is utilized to construct a plant overexpression vector and perform transgenic operation of the plants to obtain transgenic plants. The detection shows that the salt tolerance of the transgenic plants is remarkably improved, so that a novel salt-tolerant plant can be created after the invention is implemented; and the gene can be used for subsequent crop variety improvement, and has a great significance for the agricultural production in China.