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Apomixis for Producing True-Breeding Plant Progenies
Patent Number: 5811636
Docket Number: 17393
Serial Number: 8532050
Date Patented: 09/22/1998
Agricultural Research Service
Date Issued:
September 22, 1998
Abstract:
The invention relates to plants that breed true by transferring an apospory-specific apomictic genomic region of Penesetum squamulatum to a cultivated Pennesetum plant to form a true-breeding hybrid. It also relates to markers and probes to the genomic region , vectors containing the markers and probes, and to a method for producing true-breeding plant progeny
using the apomictic genomic region. The invention is also directed to cultivated plants that contain the gene(s) from
Pennisetum squamulatum, which express apomixis. The apomictic mechanism could greatly simplify the development and
commercial production of hybrids. Current hybrids need to be produced in isolation to maintain purity of the hybrid, and
have to be remade each generation. The apomictic mechanism would greatly reduce the cost of hybrid production and
revolutionize the way hybrids are produced.
Inventors:
Wayne W. Hanna
Georgia Coastal Plain Experimental Station
Tifton, Georgia 31793
(912) 386-3353 / Fax: (912) 386-7225 |
Peggy Ozias-Akins
(Same address as first inventor)
(912) 386-3961 / Fax: (912) 386-7005 |
Michel Dujardin
Place D'Armes 11
B-5600 Philippeville, BELGIUM |
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Industry Keywords:
apomictic, hybrid, DNA, cultivated plants, Pennisetum glaucum, genetic modification, organisms
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