The present invention provides a tobacco plant which is suitable for cultivation for harvesting leaf tobaccos. The present invention includes (i) a tobacco plant in which a mutation for suppressing the development of axillary buds is introduced and (ii) a method of producing the tobacco plant.

This disclosure pertains to markers and methods useful in identifying Cannabis plants that have a day length neutral phenotype, and methods of breeding plants having a day length neutral phenotype.

Described herein are modified isopropylmalate synthase nucleic acids and proteins, as well as methods, plants, plant cells, and seeds that include the modified isopropylmalate synthase. As shown herein, plants and seeds with such modified isopropylmalate synthase nucleic acids and proteins have increased biomass and/or increased amino acid content.

Provided relates to conferring desirable agronomic traits in Cucumber plants. Further, provided is a modified Cucumber plant exhibiting at least one improved domestication trait. The modified Cucumber plant includes at least one genetic modification conferring reduced expression of at least one Cucumber SELF PRUNING (SP) (CuSP) gene. Also, further provided are methods for producing the aforementioned modified Cucumber plant and uses thereof.

The present invention provides methods of marker-assisted selection for high oleic/low linolenic traits in canola and in other oil seed crop species, as well as isolated nucleic acids for use as molecular markers in such methods. In particular, molecular markers and Brassica nucleic acid corresponding to fad2 and fad3 gene mutations are disclosed. The markers of the present invention are highly useful for the direct selection of desirable fad2 and fad3 alleles during marker-assisted trait introgression and breeding. In one aspect of the embodiment, two single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are provided that correspond to the alleles. Thus, the present invention advantageously permits one of skill in the art to breed for the molecular markers described herein, or derivatives thereof, rather than breeding for a high oleic/low linolenic phenotype.

Methods for delayed harvesting of corn fields are provided herein. These methods provide an extended, flexible period of time to harvest corn. The methods allow growers to harvest their corn at the optimal time for drying down or accessing seed, without increasing the risk of losing yield to lodging.

The present invention relates to rice grain with thickened aleurone. Also provided is a rice plant comprising at least one genetic variation which reduces the activity of at least one ROS1a gene in the plant. Grain of the invention, or aleurone therefrom, has improved nutritional properties, and hence is particularly useful for human and animal feed products.

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for altering gibberellin (GA) content in corn or other cereal plants. Methods and compositions are also provided for altering the expression of genes related to gibberellin biosynthesis through editing of a specific GA20 oxidase gene or locus to produce a genomic deletion or disruption that brings an antisense sequence of the GA20 oxidase gene under the control of a neighboring SAMT gene promoter. Modified plant cells and plants having a dominant allele reducing the expression or activity of one or more GA oxidase genes are further provided comprising reduced gibberellin levels and improved characteristics, such as reduced plant height and increased lodging resistance, but without off-types.

Provided herein are methods of obtaining, producing, identifying, and the like soybean plants having a genotype associated with a large-seed phenotype as well as plants, plant cells, and plant genomes comprising a genotype associated with a large-seed phenotype.

The disclosure relates to Calibrachoa plants comprising a double-flowering characteristic and a dwarf growth characteristic, methods for generating said plants, and molecular markers corresponding to the double-flowering and dwarf growth traits.