DNA ENCODING A PLANT DEOXYHYPUSINE SYNTHASE, A PLANT EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR 5A, TRANSGENIC PLANTS AND A METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SENESCENCE PROGRAMMED AND CELL DEATH IN PLANTS

摘要

Regulation of expression of programmed cell death, including senescence, inplants is achieved by integration of a gene or gene fragment encodingsenescence-induced eIF-5A or both into the plant genome in antisenseorientation. Plant genes encoding senescence-induced deoxyhpusine synthase andsenescence-induced elF-5A are identified and the nucleotide sequences of each,aon and in combination are used to modify senescence in transgenic plants