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Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristicsRelated Patent Categories: Multicellular Living Organisms And Unmodified Parts Thereof And Related Processes, Method Of Introducing A Polynucleotide Molecule Into Or Rearrangement Of Genetic Material Within A Plant Or Plant Part, Nonplant Protein Is Expressed From The PolynucleotideNucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070192907, Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application is a Continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 11/174,307 filed on Jun. 30, 2005, and for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. .sctn. 120; and this application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. .sctn. 119 on U.S. Provisional Application No(s). 60/583,671; 60/583,781 and 60/583,651 filed on Jun. 30, 2004; the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. [0002] This application contains two (2) CDRs (Copy 1 and Copy 2) in place of the paper copy of the Sequence Listing, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. The CDRs contain the following File: [0003] File Name: 2005-11-21.sub.--2750-1601PUS2-ST25.txt [0004] Date of Creation: Jan. 3, 2007 [0005] File Size: 30,409 KB FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0006] The present invention relates to isolated polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded thereby, and the use of those products for making transgenic plants or organisms, such as transgenic plants. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0007] There are more than 300,000 species of plants. They show a wide diversity of forms, ranging from delicate liverworts, adapted for life in a damp habitat, to cacti, capable of surviving in the desert. The plant kingdom includes herbaceous plants, such as corn, whose life cycle is measured in months, to the giant redwood tree, which can live for thousands of years. This diversity reflects the adaptations of plants to survive in a wide range of habitats. This is seen most clearly in the flowering plants (phylum Angiospermophyta), which are the most numerous, with over 250,000 species. They are also the most widespread, being found from the tropics to the arctic. [0008] The process of plant breeding involving man's intervention in natural breeding and selection is some 20,000 years old. It has produced remarkable advances in adapting existing species to serve new purposes. The world's economics was largely based on the successes of agriculture for most of these 20,000 years. [0009] Plant breeding involves choosing parents, making crosses to allow recombination of gene (alleles) and searching for and selecting improved forms. Success depends on the genes/alleles available, the combinations required and the ability to create and find the correct combinations necessary to give the desired properties to the plant. Molecular genetics technologies are now capable of providing new genes, new alleles and the means of creating and selecting plants with the new, desired characteristics. [0010] Plants specifically improved for agriculture, horticulture and other industries can be obtained using molecular technologies. As an example, great agronomic value can result from modulating the size of a plant as a whole or of any of its organs. The green revolution came about as a result of creating dwarf wheat plants, which produced a higher seed yield than taller plants because they could withstand higher levels and inputs of fertilizer and water. [0011] Similarly, modulation of the size and stature of an entire plant, or a particular portion of a plant, allows production of plants better suited for a particular industry. For example, reductions in the height of specific ornamentals, crops and tree species can be beneficial by allowing easier harvesting. Alternatively, increasing height may be beneficial by providing more biomass. Other examples of commercially desirable traits include increasing the length of the floral stems of cut flowers, increasing or altering leaf size and shape, enhancing the size of seeds and/or fruits, enhancing yields by specifically stimulating hormone (e.g. Brassinolide) synthesis and stimulating early flowering or evoking late flowering by altering levels of gibberellic acid or other hormones in specific cells. Changes in organ size and biomass also result in changes in the mass of constituent molecules such as secondary products. To summarize, molecular genetic technologies provide the ability to modulate and manipulate growth, development and biochemistry of the entire plant as well as at the cell, tissue and organ levels. Thus, plant morphology, development and biochemistry are altered to maximize or minimize the desired plant trait. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0012] The present invention, therefore, relates to isolated polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded thereby, and the use of those products for making transgenic organisms, such as plants, bacteria, yeast, fungi and mammals, depending upon the desired characteristics. [0013] In the field of agriculture and forestry efforts are constantly being made to produce plants with improved characteristics, such as increased overall yield or increased yield of biomass or chemical components, in particular in order to guarantee the supply of the constantly increasing world population with food and to guarantee the supply of reproducible raw materials. Conventionally, people try to obtain plants with an increased yield by breeding, but this is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Furthermore, appropriate breeding programs must be performed for each relevant plant species. [0014] Recently, progress has been made by the genetic manipulation of plants. That is, by introducing into and expressing recombinant nucleic acid molecules in plants. Such approaches have the advantage of not usually being limited to one plant species, but being transferable to other plant species as well. EP-A 0 511 979, for example, discloses that the expression of a prokaryotic asparagine synthetase in plant cells inter alia leads to an increase in biomass production. Similarly, WO 96/21737 describes the production of plants with increased yield from the expression of deregulated or unregulated fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase due to an increased rate of the photosynthesis. Nevertheless, there still is a need for generally applicable processes that improve yield in plants interesting for agriculture or forestry purposes. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 1. Definitions [0015] The following terms are utilized throughout this application: [0016] Domain: Domains are fingerprints or signatures that can be used to characterize protein families and/or parts of proteins. Such fingerprints or signatures can comprise conserved (1) primary sequence, (2) secondary structure, and/or (3) three-dimensional conformation. Generally, each domain has been associated with either a family of proteins or motifs. Typically, these families and/or motifs have been correlated with specific in-vitro and/or in-vivo activities. A domain can be any length, including the entirety of the sequence of a protein. Detailed descriptions of the domains, associated families and motifs, and correlated activities of the polypeptides of the instant invention are described below. Usually, the polypeptides with designated domain(s) can exhibit at least one activity that is exhibited by any polypeptide that comprises the same domain(s). Domains also define areas of non-coding sequences such as promoters and miRNAs. Endogenous: The term "endogenous," within the context of the current invention refers to any polynucleotide, polypeptide or protein sequence which is a natural part of a cell or organisms regenerated from said cell. [0017] Exogenous: "Exogenous," as referred to within, is any polynucleotide, polypeptide or protein sequence, whether chimeric or not, that is initially or subsequently introduced into the genome of an individual host cell or the organism regenerated from said host cell by any means other than by a sexual cross. Examples of means by which this can be accomplished are described below, and include Agrobacterium-mediated transformation (of dicots--e.g. Salomon et al. EMBO J. 3:141 (1984); Herrera-Estrella et al. EMBO J. 2:987 (1983); of monocots, representative papers are those by Escudero et al., Plant J. 10:355 (1996), Ishida et al., Nature Biotechnology 14:745 (1996), May et al., Bio/Technology 13:486 (1995)), biolistic methods (Armaleo et al., Current Genetics 17:97 1990)), electroporation, in planta techniques, and the like. Such a plant containing the exogenous nucleic acid is referred to here as a T.sub.0 for the primary transgenic plant and T.sub.1 for the first generation. The term "exogenous" as used herein is also intended to encompass inserting a naturally found element into a non-naturally found location. Continue reading about Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics... 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