2 results about "Etioplasts" patented technology

This invention relates to methods of producing exogenous collagen in photosynthetic organelles and photosynthetic organisms, in particular methods of producing exogenous collagen in the plastid of an alga or plant, particularly in chloroplasts. Genetically altered algae and genetically altered plants, plant parts thereof or plant cells which express collagen in their chloroplasts are also included.

A method of expressing an agronomically or non-agronomically beneficial trait in a plant plastid comprising expressing an exogenous nucleic acid in the plant to produce non-photosynthetic mutant plants, and using callus grown from the mutant plants as recipients for introduction of a construct having a functional copy of the mutated gene and a gene conferring an agronomically or non-agronomically beneficial trait. Embodiments provide for mutations in chloroplast-encoded genes, as well as mutations in nuclear-encoded genes targeted to the chloroplast that are required for photosynthesis, plants and plant parts produced from such methods, as well as kits for performing the methods as described.