GSL-ELONGASE gene of Arabidopsis thaliana and other plants, especially Brassica oleracea, Brassica rapa and Brassica napus. The nature and level of glucosinolates in plants can be modified by transgenic expression of the genes or control of the level of expression.

Plant Bioscience Limited

Methods and means for modification of glucosinolates in plants

A method for producing plants of the Brassicaceae family that have reduced feeding by cruciferous insects is disclosed. The method comprises selecting for the heritable trait of altered total non-seed glucosinolate levels or for the heritable trait of increased myrosinase activity. Selection may be performed on Brassicaceae cultivars, mutagenized populations or wild populations, including the species Brassica napus, B. campestris and Arabidopsis thaliana. Plants having such altered levels show reduced feeding by cruciferous insects, including flea beetle, diamond back moth and cabbage butterfly. Plants selected for altered levels of both glucosinolates and myrosinase also show reduced feeding by cruciferous insects.

glucosinolate/lituruohot

Methods and means for modification of glucosinolates in plants

Heritable reduction in insect feeding on brassicaceae plants

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