Sedoheptulose, which is a saccharide falling within the categories of ketoses and heptuloses, is one of a small number of heptuloses occurring in nature. A method for producing sedoheptulose may use a bacterium, and/or may improve the productivity of sedoheptulose by the bacterium, and the bacterium. To solve this problem, provided are a method for producing sedoheptulose using a bacterium owing to the deletion or attenuation of a specific enzymatic function, a method for improving the productivity of sedoheptulose by the bacterium, and the bacterium.

The present disclosure relates to a microorganism producing a mycosporine-like amino acid and a method for producing a mycosporine-like amino acid using the microorganism.

Since the microorganism of the present disclosure has an increased mycosporine-like amino acid-producing ability, it can be effectively used in producing mycosporine-like amino acids.

The present disclosure relates to a novel acetohydroxy acid synthase, a microorganism comprising the same, or a method for producing an L-branched-chain amino acid using the same.

Provided are the herbicide-tolerant, aromatic (jasmine) rice cultivar designated ‘CLJ01’ and its hybrids and derivatives. The present invention provides a method for controlling weeds in the vicinity of rice, comprising contacting the rice with an herbicide, wherein said rice belongs to any of (a) variety ‘CLJ01’ or (b) a hybrid, derivative, or progeny of ‘CLJOV that expresses the imidazolinone herbicide resistance characteristics of ‘CLJOV. In some embodiments, the rice plants of the present invention include plants that comprise an AHAS mutant polypeptide that confers an increased tolerance to an imidazolinone herbicide when compared to a wild-type rice plant.

Non-naturally occurring Zymomonas strains useful for the production of 2,3-butanediol are provided.

A method of improving photosynthetic ability of an alga, containing enhancing expression of a transketolase and a fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase.

The present disclosure relates to a novel acetohydroxy acid synthase, a microorganism comprising the same, or a method for producing an L-branched-chain amino acid using the same.

Multi-carbon compounds such as ethanol, n-butanol, sec-butanol, isobutanol, tert-butanol, fatty (or aliphatic long chain) alcohols, fatty acid methyl esters, 2,3-butanediol and the like, are important industrial commodity chemicals with a variety of applications. The present invention provides metabolically engineered host microorganisms which metabolize methane (CH.sub.4) as their sole carbon source to produce multi-carbon compounds for use in fuels (e.g., bio-fuel, bio-diesel) and bio-based chemicals. Furthermore, use of the metabolically engineered host microorganisms of the invention (which utilize methane as the sole carbon source) mitigate current industry practices and methods of producing multi-carbon compounds from petroleum or petroleum-derived feedstocks, and ameliorate much of the ongoing depletion of arable food source “farmland” currently being diverted to grow bio-fuel feedstocks, and as such, improve the environmental footprint of future bio-fuel, bio-diesel and bio-based chemical compositions.

It discloses a rice ALS mutant protein, a mutant gene, and uses thereof, wherein a mutation corresponding to an amino acid at position 628 of the amino acid sequence of the rice ALS is present in the amino acid sequence of the rice ALS protein. The present invention further discloses a breeding method for creating herbicide resistant rice using gene editing. The present invention uses CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology for the first time to edit ALS genes. Through the screening of offspring, a new T-DNA free variety having herbicide resistance stably inherited can be obtained in the T.sub.2 generation, and the basic agronomic characteristics of the new variety have no obvious change.

The present invention belongs to the field of plant genetic engineering. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for creating novel herbicide resistant plants by base editing techniques and a method for screening endogenous gene mutation sites capable of conferring herbicide resistance in plants. The invention also relates to the use of the identified endogenous gene mutantation sites in crop breeding.