Reduction of lignin biosynthesis in transgenic plants

Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Method of introducing a polynucleotide molecule into or... – The polynucleotide encodes an inhibitory rna molecule

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ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a method of reducing lignification in a vascular plant, comprising causing antisense suppression or co-suppression of both AGL1 and AGL5 expression in said plant, by ectopically expressing a nucleic acid molecule encoding an AGL1-like and AGL5-like gene product in said plant.

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