METHOD FOR PRODUCING A LENGTHY PLANT TRANSGENIC PERENE PRESENTING AN INCREASED BIOMASS MEASURED BY DRY TRUNK WEIGHT IN COMPARISON WITH ITS WILD TYPE

摘要

This invention refers to a new and extensive analytical platform to select genes with a possible commercial phenotype from a large group of candidate genes using bioinformatics tools, EST sequencing data and DNA arrangement. One aspect of the invention provides methods to produce a transgenic plant with increased growth compared to its wild type. The method consists of altering the level of a gene from at least one gene specifically expressed during the different phases of wood formation in the plant. This can be done with tra methodsNsgenic or by specific methods of crossing. Other aspects of the invention provide a plant cell and plant and wood progeny having gene expression modulated according to the invention. Other aspects refer to a DNA construct that comprises a sequence of nucleotides of the invention and a plant cell or Plant progeny comprising the construction of DNA.