Tasmanian Alkaloids Pty. Ltd.

Johnson & Johnson Research Pty Limited

Tasmania Alkaloids Pty, Ltd.

Anthony John Fist

Wayne Lyle Gerlach

Christopher James Byrne

James A C Miller

Davina Gregory

Toni M Kutchan

David G Atkins

Meinhart H Zenk

Meinhard H Zenk

A poppy straw of, wherein the poppy straw includes codeine constituting about 40% by weight or greater of an alkaloid combination.

Papaver somniferum with high concentration of codeine

The present invention is directed to an improved poppy straw, concentrate of poppy straw and opium offor the production of thebaine containing little or no oripavine, codeine or morphine. The present invention also provides plants, stands and seeds ofand methods for the production of thebaine.

strain with high concentration of thebaine

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The present invention is directed to an improved poppy straw, concentrate of poppy straw and opium offor the production of codeine containing little or no oripavine, morphine or thebaine. The present invention also provides plants, stands and seeds ofand methods for the production of codeine.

There is disclosed an improved poppy straw of a stably reproducing Papaver somniferum for the extraction of thebaine and/or oripavine, the threshed straw having thebaine and oripavine constituting about 50% by weight or greater of the alkaloid combination consisting of morphine, codeine, thebaine and oripavine.

Production of thebaine and oripavine

The present invention concerns codeinone reductase from alkaloid poppy plants, the polynucleotides encoding the enzyme, transgenic plants transformed or transfected with polynucleotide(s) encoding codeinone reductase and to the production of alkaloids from transformed or transfected poppy plants.

Codeinone reductase from alkaloid poppy

The present invention relates to production of alkaloids from poppy plants and in particular togenes encoding enzymes in the alkaloid pathway, to proteins encoded by the gens, to plants transformed or transfected with the genes and to methods of altering alkaloid content or blend of poppy plants.

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Norwood, Australia

Anthony John Fist