Patent 7897839 was granted and assigned to Ceres, Inc. on March, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Isolated polynucleotides, polypeptides, and transgenic plants are described. The transgenic plants can exhibit one or more altered phenotypic characteristics relative to a control plant, including increased height, increased seed weight, increased photosynthetic rates, decreased levels of campestanol, or increased levels of 6-deoxocathasterone.