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This invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology. More specifically, this invention relates to methods and reagents for the temporally- and / or spatially-regulated expression of genes that affect metabolically effective levels of cytokinins in plants, particularly in plant seeds and related female reproductive tissue. This invention further relates to transgenic plants having enhanced levels of cytokinin expression wherein the transgenic plant exhibits useful characteristics, such as improved seed size, decreased tip kernel abortion, increased seed set during unfavorable environmental conditions, or stability of yield. The present invention also provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel nucleotide sequences for seed-preferred promoters known as eep1 and eep2. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one of the promoters of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.

This invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology. More specifically, this invention relates to methods and reagents for the temporally- and / or spatially-regulated expression of genes, particularly in plant seeds and related female reproductive tissue. The present invention also provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions comprise novel nucleotide sequences for a seed-preferred promoter known as eep1. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one of the promoters of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.

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 GRP (Growth-Related Protein). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP, 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. The GRP may be one of the following: Seed Yield Regulator (SYR), FG-GAP1 CYP90B, CDC27, AT-hook transcription factors, DOF transcription factors and Cyclin Dependent Kinase Inhibitors (CKIs).

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing plant yield relative to suitable control plants plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing plant yield comprising increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding a Dof (DNA-binding with one finger) domain transcription factor polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid encoding a Dof domain transcription factor polypeptide, which plants have increased yield relative to suitable control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.

The present invention provides a method of herbicide treatment of selected female and male parents in a hybrid seed production system. The system results in enhanced trait purity and efficiency in the hybrid seed production system.

A wheat variety designated 25R30, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R30, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R30 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R30 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R30. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R30 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

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 GRP (Growth-Related Protein). The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a GRP, 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. The GRP may be one of the following: Extensin Receptor-Like Kinase (ERLK), F-Box WD40 (FBXW) polypeptide, RAN-Binding Protein (RANBP), Golden2-like Transcription Factor (GLK), REV delta homeodomain leucine zipper domain polypeptide, CLE protein, and Seed Yield Regulator (SYR) protein.

The present invention provides a method of herbicide treatment of selected female and male parents in a hybrid seed production system. The system results in enhanced trait purity and efficiency in the hybrid seed production system.

Tetraploid watermelon inbreds are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds and plants of the tetraploid watermelon inbreds, the methods of propagating the tetraploid inbreds through seeds and tissue culture. The invention also relates to methods of producing the triploid seedless watermelon seeds and plants by crossing the tetraploid inbreds with diploid watermelon inbreds, and to the triploid plants produced therefrom.

A wheat variety designated 25R32, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R32, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R32 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R32 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R32. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R32 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

A wheat variety designated W990117E1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W990117E1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W990117E1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W990117E1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W990117E1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W990117E1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.

The present invention relates to methods for stimulating root growth and / or enhancing the formation of lateral or adventitious roots and / or altering root geotropism comprising expression of a cytokinin oxidase or comprising expression of another protein that reduces the level of active cytokinins in plants or plant parts. Also provided by the present invention are methods for increasing seed size and / or weight, embryo size and / or weight, and cotyledon size and / or weight. The methods comprise expression of a cytokinin oxidase or expression of another protein that reduces the level of active cytokinins in plants or plant parts. Methods and compositions for increasing seed yield are also provided. The invention also relates to isolated plant cytokinin oxidase proteins, nucleic acid sequences encoding cytokinin oxidase proteins as well as to vectors, host cells, transgenic cells and plants comprising such sequences. The use of these sequences for improving root-related characteristics including increasing yield and / or enhancing early vigor and / or modifying root / shoot ratio and / or improving resistance to lodging and / or increasing drought tolerance and / or promoting in vitro propagation of explants and / or modifying cell fate and / or plant development and / or plant morphology and / or plant biochemistry and / or plant physiology, is also provided. The invention also relates to methods for identifying and obtaining proteins and compounds interacting with cytokinin oxidase proteins as well as the use of such proteins and / or compounds as plant growth regulators or herbicides.

A wheat variety designated W000850B1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000850B1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000850B1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000850B1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000850B1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000850B1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.