Patent 7999093 was granted and assigned to E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding high affinity nitrate transport components. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of nitrate transport components, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct may alter levels of the nitrate transport components in a transformed host cell.