Monsanto Technology LLC

Ceres, Inc.

Dennis Hung Yang

Cory Christensen

Wuyi Wang

Edward James Cargill

Ty Jason Barten

Romain Fouquet

Matthew Sean Marengo

Jose Rafael Gomez

Manuel Oyervides Garcia

Jeanette M Peevers

Alana N Brown

Vergel C Concibido

George James Baley

Linda Rymarquis

Jonathan C Lamb

Bryce Lemke

Ryan Rapp

Jennifer J Yates

The present disclosure is in the field of plant breeding. The disclosure provides methods for breeding corn plants having a brachytic trait using marker-assisted selection. The disclosure further provides brachytic germplasm, markers associated with a brachytic trait for introgressing the trait into elite germplasm in a breeding program. This disclosure also provides brachytic or dwarf elite corn varieties having yield equal to or higher than conventional non-brachytic corn varieties.

Methods and compositions for producing brachytic corn plants

Disclosed herein are plants exhibiting a semi-dwarf phenotype with reduced plant height compared to control wildtype plants. Some of the disclosed semi-dwarf plants comprise at least one non-natural brachytic mutation in which the activity of a BR2 gene is reduced. Also disclosed are methods for producing a semi-dwarf corn plant using a CRISPR based genome editing system.

Genome editing-based crop engineering and production of brachytic plants

Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.

Drought and heat tolerance in plants

The present invention provides methods and compositions for the identification and selection of loci modulating phenotypic expression of a stem canker resistance trait in plant breeding. In addition, methods are provided for screening germplasm entries for the performance and expression of this trait.

Molecular markers associated with stem canker resistance in soybean

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Ballwin, MO, United States of America

Dennis Hung Yang