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University of California

The General Hospital Corporation

The United States of America As Represented by the Secretary of

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Fumiaki Katagiri

Frederick M Ausubel

Brian J Staskawicz

Guo-Liang Yu

Michael Nicholas Mindrinos

John M Salmeron

Douglas Dahlbeck

Andrew F Bent

Barbara J Baker

Barbara N Kunkel

Jeffrey Ellis

Tong Zhu

Steven P Briggs

Stephen Arthur Goff

Joel Kreps

Darrell Orlyn Ricke

Bret Cooper

Paul Budworth

Todd Moughamer

Jane Glazebrook

Nicholas Provart

The present invention provides promoters from plants capable of driving gene expression in plant cells. The promoters vary in strength and in tissue specificity, and can be used to facilitate the development of transgenic plants in which tissue preferred expression, constitutive expression, and the strength of transgene expression is either more or less critical.

Rice promoters for regulation of plant expression

The invention relates to a method of identifying a plant disease-resistance gene that includes the steps of (a) providing a plant tissue sample; (b)introducing by biolistic transformation into the plant tissue sample a candidate plant disease-resistance gene; (c) expressing the candidate plant disease-resistance gene within the plant tissue sample; and (d) determining whether the plant tissue sample exhibits a disease-resistance response, whereby a response identifies a plant disease-resistance gene.

Methods of identifying plant disease-resistance genes

The invention relates to a genes isolated from an oomycete that encode homologs of an FtsZ protein. The invention includes methods of using these proteins to discover new antimicrobials, based on the essentiality of the gene for normal growth and development. The invention can also be used in screening assays to identify inhibitors that are potential antimicrobials. These antimicrobials may be used in a method of controlling oomycete growth on crop plants and seeds.

Oomycete FtsZ-mt as a target for oomycete-specific antimicrobials

Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an,Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.

RPS gene family, primers, probes, and detection methods

Disclosed is a new plant resistance gene family, the members of which encode plant resistance polypeptides having P-loop and LRR structural motifs. Also disclosed are substantially pure plant DNAs encoding such polypeptides. The invention further involves transgenic plants and transformed host cells that express these DNAs and exhibit enhanced disease resistance to plant pathogens.

Plant resistance gene family encoding resistance polypeptides having

Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an Arabidopsis thaliana Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.

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Maplewood, MN, United States of America

Fumiaki Katagiri