Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Henan Agricultural University

Purdue Research Foundation

Corteva Agriscience LLC

China Agricultural University

Huazhong Agricultural University

University of Bologna

Bailin Li

Marc C Albertsen

William Andrew Wilson

Tim Fox

Mary Trimnell

April L Leonard

Jennifer S Jaqueth

Marianna Faller

Yongzhong Wu

Girma M Tabor

Keith S Lowe

Kevin A Fengler

Shawn Thatcher

Zhizeng Liu

Thao Dam

Junqiang Ding

Jing Zhao

Dwight T Tomes

Xiaomu Niu

Mark E Williams

Jinrui Shi

David S Ertl

Mingliang Xu

Christine B Hazel

Michele Morgante

Hongyu Wang

Anthony D Guida, Jr

Edward Bruggemann

Brian R Loveland

Silvio Salvi

Giorgio Sponza

Roberto Tuberosa

Kathleen Schellin

Qing Chao

Yongsheng Chen

Xianrong Zhao

Donald Kyle

Bo Shen

Stanley Luck

Zhenglin Hou

Robert B Meeley

Huirong Gao

Gurmukh S Johal

Dilbag Singh Multani

Leandro Daniel Perugini

Olga Nikolaevna Danilevskaya

Mark D Vogt

Julian Chaky

Marymar Goncalves Butruille

Michael G Muszynski

Elizabeth S Jones

Jennifer A Klaiber

Hongze Wang

Zhibing Lai

William A Wilson

Meng Lv

Ce Deng

Tangshun Ai

James Cahill

Zhaohui Sun

Huimin Li

Stuart Gardner

Jianbing Yan

Gengshen Chen

Qianhui Yang

Yurong Li

April Lynn Leonard

Tim W Fox

Anthony D Guida

Jr Anthony D Guida

Michele University Of Udine Morgante

S Dept Agroenvironmental Sci And Techn Salvi

G Dept Agroenvironmental Sci And Techn Sponza

R Dept Agroenvironmental Sci And Tech Tuberosa

The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes and plant pathogen effector genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode plant pathogen effector proteins and proteins providing plant resistance to various diseases and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.

Plant pathogen effector and disease resistance gene identification, compositions, and methods of use

The compositions and methods are related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting disease resistance genes. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode proteins providing plant resistance to various diseases and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.

Methods of identifying, selecting, and producing disease resistant crops

The field is related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting plants with resistance to southern corn rust. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode proteins providing plant resistance to southern corn rust and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.

Methods of identifying, selecting, and producing southern corn rust resistant crops

Compositions and methods for obtaining plant cells with modified Ht1 nucleotide sequences, modified NLB18 sequences, or both, are provided herein. The methods involve introducing double-strand breaks into the maize genome in an endogenous Ht1 encoding sequence, an endogenous NLB18 encoding sequence, or both, to modify the genomic sequence in order to enhance northern leaf blight resistance of a plant produced from the plant cell. Further provided are methods that introduce resistant alleles of Ht1 and/or NLB18 into specific sites in the genome. Plants produced by the plant cells, and seeds produced from the plants are also included. Guide polynucleotides are also provided for the use of the CRISPR-Cas system in inducing double strand breaks.

Generating northern leaf blight resistant maize

Compositions and methods for generating maize plants that exhibit resistance to northern leaf blight are provided herein. Isolated polynucleotides encoding a polypeptide that confers resistance to northern leaf blight, polynucleotide constructs comprising such, and maize plants comprising the polynucleotide constructs are provided. The methods include expressing an isolated polynucleotide in a maize cell via standard transformation methods and obtaining a maize plant from said maize cell.

Generating maize plants with enhanced resistance to northern leaf blight

Compositions and methods useful in identifying and counter-selecting maize plants with having enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants under abiotic stress conditions such as salt stress and/or drought are provided herein. The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct salt stress tolerant and/or drought tolerant maize plants. Also provided are methods to enhance tolerance to salt stress and/or drought in crop plants by transforming crop plants with theantiporter/sodium ion transporter or by introducing favorable allelic variants of theantiporter/sodium ion transporter gene via gene editing.

Genetic loci associated with response to abiotic stress

The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying and selecting maize plants with enhanced resistance to northern leaf blight. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.

Compositions and methods for enhancing resistance to northern leaf blight in maize

A nuclear maize gene is mutated to result in dominant male sterility. Two mutants are provided which impact signal peptide processing. Restoration constructs and methods are provided for use of the dominant male-sterile mutants in producing hybrid seed for male-sterile hybrid plants. Other signal-peptide modifications are provided. Orthologs of the wild type or mutated gene in various species are provided.

Genetic reduction of male fertility in plants

Head smut is one of the most devastating diseases in maize, causing severe yield loss worldwide. The present invention describes the fine-mapping of a major QTL conferring resistance to head smut. Markers useful for breeding, and methods for conferring head smut resistance are described. Nucleic acid sequence from the genetic locus conferring head smut resistance is disclosed. Genes encoding proteins conferring head smut resistance are disclosed.

Genetic loci associated with head smut resistance in maize

Methods and compositions for increasing a plant's resistance to an insect pest such as the corn rootworm are provided. Methods are provided for overexpression of Crw2, or variants thereof, in a host plant or plant cell to increase resistance to an insect pest in a plant such as maize. Methods are also provided for identifying variants of Crw2 that when incorporated into a plant via transgenic or traditional breeding means increase resistance to an insect pest in a plant such as maize. Also provided are methods for increasing resistance by overexpressing Crw1 and Crw2.

Compositions and methods conferring resistance of maize to corn rootworm II

The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying and selecting maize plants that have reduced grain moisture. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.

Compositions and methods to select for reduced grain moisture in maize

Growing community of inventors

Hockessin, DE, United States of America

Bailin Li