USE OF CLASS I HDZIP HOX5 IN METHOD FOR MAKING PLANTS HAVING INCREASED YIELD UNDER REDUCED NITROGEN AVAILABILITY

摘要

The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for improving plant growth characteristics relative to wild type plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for increasing yield in plants grown under reduced nutrient availability, relative to corresponding wild type plants,comprising modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a class I homeodomain leucine zipper (HDZip) hox5 polypeptide or a homologue thereof.