Abstract: The present invention is directed towards plants and methods of producing plants exhibiting one or more useful traits such as increased yield, increased biomass, drought tolerance, salinity tolerance, increased lignin production, biotic stress resistance, abiotic stress resistance, enhanced growth rate, or beneficial root architecture. In particular, the present invention is directed to plants, plant cells, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds without genetic modification exhibiting useful traits that can confer one or more useful traits to successive generations including cells, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds, methods of producing and using the plants and plant parts, and products of those plant and plant parts, including processed products such as foodstuffs, feed or meal.

Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a transgenic plant that has an increased biomass, yield and/or abiotic stress tolerance. In particular, the present invention is directed to a transgenic plant or plant cell in which a nucleic acid molecule encoding an RNA demethylase FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated) protein is introduced. Also provided by the disclosure are methods of producing the plants with increased biomass, yield and/or abiotic stress tolerance.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of genetic engineering. More particularly the invention relates to a method of quantitating transgenes or transgene expression by using sequences commonly included in transformation plasmids or vectors. The invention also provides primers and probes which can be used with this method.