Abstract:
Plants are created with desired traits by conveniently and rapidly inhibiting methylation of target DNA in plants, without using recombination technology. Scaffold RNA produced by transcription of target DNA is cleaved in an RNA-directed DNA methylation mechanism.
Abstract:
A nucleic acid molecule for expressing a foreign gene in a plant, said nucleic acid molecule carrying, in this order, a right border (RB) sequence derived from the T-DNA sequence of an agrobacterium, an expression promoter sequence capable of functioning in the aforesaid plant, a sequence corresponding to the RNA2 genome of cucumber mosaic virus wherein a 2b protein-encoding gene has been partly or entirely substituted by the aforesaid foreign gene, and a left border (LB) sequence derived from the T-DNA sequence of an agrobacterium.