Syngenta Corporation

Christopher John Andrews

Timothy Robert Hawkes

Simon Anthony James Warner

Satvinder Bachoo

Simon Warner

Andrew Paul Pickerill

Methods for making transgenic plants that are resistant to HPPD herbicides are presented. Polynucleotides other than those fromthat encode resistant HPPD enzymes are enclosed for use in the process of making transgenic plants that are tolerant to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides.

Methods for the production of plants resistant to HPPD herbicides

Methods for production of plants resistant to HPPD herbicides

Polynucleotide constructs encoding EPSPS enzymes are disclosed. The constructs have at least one transcriptional enhancer operably linked to a soybean or Brassica promoter and to a sequence respectively encoding the soybean or Brassica EPSPS chloroplast transit peptide and soybean or Brassica EPSPS enzyme. The EPSPS enzymes comprise a modified region that confers herbicide resistance.

Herbicide resistant plants

The invention is directed to polynucleotide constructs having at least one transcriptional enhancer operably liked to a rice EPSPS promoter and to a sequence encoding the rice EPSPS chloroplast transit peptide and rice EPSPS enzyme, the encoded enzyme having a modified region that confers herbicide resistance.

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Bracknell, United Kingdom

Christopher John Andrews