Syngenta Participations Ag

Dale Wayne Skalla

Daolong Wang

Vance Cary Kramer

Thomas Joseph Prest

David Jay Foster

Todd Lee Warner

Robert Lynn Miller

Venkata Krishna Kishore

Sonali Dilip Gandhi

Molly Dunn

Nicolas Federico Martin

Chris Zinselmeier

William Briggs

Libardo Andres Gutierrez Rojas

Gayle Dace

Paul Altendorf

Kari Denise Kust

Christine Chaulk-Grace

John Arbuckle

Allen Sessions

Meijuan Li

Jon Aaron Tucker Reinders

Joseph Dallas Clarke, V

Kay A Lawton

Joseph Dallas Clarke

Stephen B Milligan

Ju-Kyung Yu

Jianwei Lu

Scott Betts

Sandra Lynn Voltrath

Koen Hendrickx

Sonali Gandhi

Libardo Andres Gutierrez-Rojas

Martin Nicolas

The presently disclosed subject matter relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting, and/or producing drought tolerant maize plants or germplasm. Maize plants or germplasm that have been identified, selected, and/or produced by any of the methods of the presently disclosed subject matter are also provided.

Genetic markers associated with drought tolerance in maize

Methods of identifying a single nucleotide polymorphism associated with a plant trait and methods of identifying a plant having an improved trait. The plant trait is correlated with at least one single nucleotide polymorphism in a microRNA region of a plant genome. Isolated nucleic acids, transgenic plants, and methods of producing the same are also disclosed.

MicroRNA polymorphisms conferring enhanced drought tolerance in a plant

The present invention is directed to promoters isolated from maize and functional equivalents thereto. The promoters of the present invention have particular utility in driving root-specific expression of heterologous genes that impart increased agronomic, horticultural and/or pesticidal characteristics to a given transgenic plant. The present invention is also drawn to DNA molecules comprising the promoters of the invention and transformed plant tissues containing DNA molecules comprising a promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous gene or genes, and seeds thereof.

Promoters for regulation of gene expression in plant roots

The present invention is directed to promoters isolated from maize and functional equivalents thereto. The promoters of the present invention have particular utility in driving root-specific expression of heterologous genes that impart increased agronomic, horticultural and/or pesticidal characteristics to a given promoters of the invention and transformed plant tissues containing DNA molecules comprising a promoter of the invention operably linked to a heterologous gene or genes, and seeds thereof.

Provided is a nucleotide sequence of a promoter from a gene encoding a 55 kDa maize prolamin family protein. Also provided are methods that utilize the 55 kDa maize prolamin family gene promoter to express heterologous sequences in plants, expression cassettes that include the 55 kDa maize prolamin family gene promoter, and plants transformed with expression cassettes that include the 55 kDa maize prolamin family gene promoter.

Promoter from maize prolamin seed storage protein and uses thereof

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Dale Wayne Skalla