Monsanto Company

Monsanto Technology LLC

Frederick J Perlak

David A Fischhoff

Roy L Fuchs

Sylvia A McPherson

Paul B Lavrik

Lidia S Watrud

David Richard Corbin

Thomas M Malvar

James Kevin Roberts

Charles P Romano

John A Miklos

Ted C MacRae

Natalia N Bogdanova

Mark S Paradise

Kathryn H Kolacz

Ai-Guo Gao

Mark G Obukowicz

Leslie A Harrison

Andrea S Toedebusch

Andrea S Dressel Toedebusch

The present invention provides a transgenic soybean event MON87701, and cells, seeds, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the soybean event. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for said soybean event in a biological sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said soybean event in a biological sample, and methods for detecting the presence of said soybean event nucleotide sequences in a biological sample. The invention further provides methods of growing the seeds of such soybean event into soybean plants, and methods of breeding to produce soybean plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the soybean event.

Soybean plant and seed corresponding to transgenic event MON87701 and methods for detection thereof

The present invention provides nucleotide sequences encoding an insecticidal protein exhibiting lepidopteran inhibitory activity, as well as a novel insecticidal protein referred to herein as a Cry1A.105 insecticide, transgenic plants expressing the insecticide, and methods for detecting the presence of the nucleotide sequences or the insecticide in a biological sample.

Nucleotide sequences encoding insecticidal proteins

A method for modifying structural gene sequences to enhance the expression of the protein product is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel structural genes which encode insecticidal proteins of B.t.k. HD-1, B.t.k. HD-73,, 2 protein of B.t.k. HD-1, and the coat protein of potato leaf roll virus.

Synthetic plant genes and method for preparation

A method for producing genetically transformed plants exhibiting toxicity to Coleopteran insects is disclosed. In another aspect, the present invention embraces chimeric plant genes, genetically transformed cells and differentiated plants which exhibit toxicity to Coleopteran insects. In yet another aspect, the present invention embraces bacterial cells and plant transformation vectors comprising a chimeric plant gene encoding a Coleopteran toxin protein of

Coleopteran toxin proteins of bacillus thuringiensis

Insect-resistant plants comprising a Bacillus thuringiensis gene

The invention relates to genetically engineered plant-colonizing microorganisms which proliferate in symbiotic or non-detrimental relationships with the plant in the plant environment. Such microorganisms contain DNA derived from,which codes for the insecticidal crystal protein toxin. The engineered plant-colonizing microorganisms of the invention and their progency are active against a variety of lepidopterous pests. The invention further relates to the use of such plant-colonizing microorganisms in a method of killing or inhibiting lepidopterous pests and to insecticidal compositions containing the plant-colonizing microorganism as the active insecticidal agent.

Insertion of the Bacillus thuringiensis crystal protein gene into plant colonizing microorganisms and their use

The invention relates to genetically engineered plant-colonizing microorganisms which prolife-rate in symbiotic or non-detrimental relationships with the plant in the plant environment. Such microorganisms contain DNA derived from Bacillus thuringiensis which codes for the insecticidal crystal protein toxin. The engineered plant-colonizing microorganisms of the invention and their progeny are active against a variety of lepidopterous pests. The invention further relates to the use of such plant-colonizing microorganisms in a method of killing or inhibiting lepidopterous pests and to insecticidal compositions containing the plant-colonizing microorganism as the active insecticidal agent.

Truncated gene of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding a polypeptide toxin

A method for modifying structural gene sequences to enhance the expression of the protein product is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel structural genes which encode insecticidal proteins of B.t.k. HD-1, and B.t.k. HD-73.

Synthetic plant genes from BT kurstaki and method for preparation

A method for producing genetically transformed plants exhibiting toxicity to Coleopteran insects is disclosed. In another aspect, the present invention embraces chimeric plant genes, genetically transformed cells and differentiated plants which exhibit toxicity to Coleopteran insects. In yet another aspect, the present invention embraces bacterial cells and plant transformation vectors comprising a chimeric plant gene encoding a Coleopteran toxin protein of Bacillus thuringiensis.

Insect resistant plants

A method for modifying structural gene sequences to enhance the expression of the protein product is disclosed. Also disclosed are novel structural genes which encode insecticidal proteins of B.t.k. HD-1, B.t.k. HD-73, B.t. tenebrionis, B.t. entomocidus, 2 protein of B.t.k. HD-1, and the coat protein of potato leaf roll virus.

Synthetic plant genes

Insect resistant tomato and potato plants

The invention relates to a plant-colonizing microorganism which has been genetically engineered to integrate into the chromosome of such microorganism, DNA derived from B. thuringiensis coding for protein toxin. The genetically engineered plant-colonizing microorganisms of the invention, and their progeny, proliferate in commensal or non-detrimental relationship with the plant in the plant environment and are insecticidally active against a subspecies of insect pest which are harmful to the plant. The invention further relates to insecticidal compositions containing such plant-colonizing microorganisms as the active insecticidal agent and to a method of using such genetically engineered plant-colonizing microorganisms in a method of killing or inhibiting insect pests.

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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Frederick J Perlak