University College Dublin

The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars, and the Other Members of Board, of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Near Dublin

Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc)

Fiona Doohan

Ewen Mullins

Toni Wendt

Khairul Ansari

Brian Murphy

Joanna Kacprzyk

Alexandre Perochon

Arunachalam Chanemougasoundharam

Lokandha Rao Gunupuru

Trevor Hodkinson

Ganesh Thapa

Gerard Hehir

Guillaume Erard

A recombinant construct comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQUENCE ID NO. 1 or a functional variant or functional fragment thereof is provided. Also provided are plant cells transformed with the gene and plant material, including plant cell cultures, seeds and plants, comprising the transformed plant cells.

Fusarium head blight disease resistance

A seed coating composition comprising a mixture of a fungal root endophyte isolated from a root of the plant found in low-nutrient, drought-stressed or multiply-stressed conditions and a carrier medium for application of said composition to a target seed, wherein the endophyte is characterised in having a nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (nr ITS) with at least a 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 15.

Method for improving the mean dry shoot weight, mean dry grain weight, and suppressing seed-borne infection in a cereal crop

The Applicant has identified a novel DON-responsive orphan gene (ENST1&#x2014;SEQ ID NO: 1), and its promoter, which features DON-responsive elements, which can be used to drive the expression of FHB resistance genes. The Applicant has isolated two variants of the gene from wheat that share approximately 94% homology with ENST1. The Applicant has shown that this gene has homologs of &#x3e;62% nucleotide sequence identity exist inand

Gene capable of enhancing salicylic acid-induced cell death in a plant cell and contributing to resistance to the fungal virulence factor deoxynivalenol, resistance to fusarium fungi and fusarium head blight disease, and a recombinant construct including the gene

Use of an isolatedstrain OV14 deposited under NCIMB Accession Number 4177, or an isolated variant thereof characterized by a 16S rRNA gene having at least 98.6% sequence homology with SEQUENCE ID NO: 1, as a gene delivery system in the genetic transformation of a plant cell or plant material is described.

Method of transforming cells

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Donegal, Ireland

Fiona Doohan