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Fungal Gene Encoding Resistance to the Phytotoxin Cercosporin
Patent Number: 6077995
Docket Number: 4596
Serial Number: 8620077
Date Patented: 06/20/2000
Agricultural Research Service
Date Issued:
June 20, 2000
Abstract:
The invention relates to various DNA sequences or proteins capable of conferring cercosporin resistance to plants.
Various strains of Cercospora affect a wide range of crops. Grey leaf spot disease on corn and purple-seed stain of
soybeans are economically significant in the United States. In most cases there are no cultivars of crop plants which
are Cercosporin resistant, so conventional breeding programs are unlikely to succeed in producing resistant cultivars.
The invention teaches how the plasmid can be used to confer resistance to cercosporin.
Inventors:
Robert G. Upchurch
Soybean & Nitrogen Fixation Research
Raleigh, NC 27695-7616
(919) 515-6996 / Fax: (919) 515-7716 |
Terrence M. Callahan
(Same address as first inventor) |
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Marilyn Ehrenshaft
203 Needle Park Drive
Gary, NC 27513 |
Industry Keywords:
banana, sugar beet, coffee, tobacco, corn, sorghum, peanut, soybean, Cercospora, zeae-maydis, foliar and seed
infections, cercosporin
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