Rhone-poulenc Agrochimie

Bayer Cropscience S.a.

Aventis Cropscience Gmbh

Aventis Cropscience S.a.

Bayer Cropscience Gmbh

Rhone-poulenc Agro

Bayer Sas

Genective

Georges L Freyssinet

Terry L Thomas

Alain Sailland

Michel Lebrun

Michael Nuccio

Avutu S Reddy

Claude Gigot

Richard Derose

Bernard Leroux

Anne Rolland

Eric Paget

Nicole Chaubet

Olivier Zink

Molly Bogue

Michael L Nuccio

Andrew N Nunberg

Nadine B Carozzi

Brian Vande Berg

Vadim Beilinson

Eric Degryse

Alain Toppan

Jules Hoffman

Jules Hoffmann

Andreas Stefan Betzner

Richard De Rose

Rebekah Deter

Marie-Pascale Doutriaux

Pascal Perez

Lori Artim Artim Mann

Laurent Beuf

Rossitza Atanassova

Martine Freyssinet

The present invention relates to the field of plant transformation with genes conferring tolerance to glyphosate. The invention particularly relates to a maize (corn) plant transformed with a gene encoding an EPSPS providing the plant tolerance to an application of glyphosate under conditions where this herbicide is effective in killing weeds. The invention particularly concerns an elite transformation event VCO-&#xd8;1981-5 comprising the gene construct and means, kits and methods for detecting the presence of the said elite event.

Glyphosate tolerant corn event VCO-O1981-5 and kit and method for detecting the same

The invention concerns a novel method for making herbicide-tolerant plants, in particular to HPPD inhibiting herbicides, the nucleic acid sequences coding for enzymes capable of being used in said method, expression cassettes containing them and transgenic plants comprising at least one of said expression cassettes.

Herbicide-tolerant plants through bypassing metabolic pathway

DNA sequence of a gene of hydroxy-phenyl pyruvate dioxygenase and production of plants containing a gene of hydroxy-phenyl pyruvate dioxygenase and which are resistant to herbicides. DNA sequence of a gene of hydroxy-phenyl pyruvate dioxygenase; isolation from a bacteria or a plant; utilization for obtaining plants tolerant to herbicides.

The invention concerns a nucleic acid sequence coding for thanatin, a vector containing it for transforming a host, and plants and plant cells transformed by the nucleic acid.

Nucleic acid sequences coding for thanatin and transformed plants containing them

Maize H3C4 promoter combined with the first intron of rice actin, chimeric gene comprising it and transformed plant

The present invention relates to an isolated and purified DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide functionally involved in the DNA mismatch repair system of a plant.

Isolated DNA that encodes an Arabidopsis thaliana MSH3 protein involved in DNA mismatch repair and a method of modifying the mismatch repair system in a plant transformed with the isolated DNA

The present invention relates to DNA molecules of plant origin encoding a modified 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) enzyme wherein the a first EPSPS coding sequence that normally encodes a threonine residue of a mature EPSPS sequence is modified to encode isoleucine of the mature EPSPS sequence, and a second EPSPS coding sequence that normally encodes a proline residue of a mature EPSPS sequence is modified to encode serine of the mature EPSPS sequence, wherein the first and second residues are respectively located at relatively positions 102 and 106 of a mature EPSPS sequence encoded by said DNA molecule; and the production of a transgenic plant resistant or tolerant to a herbicide of the phosphonomethylglycine family, e.g., glyphosate. The mutated enzyme, which substantially maintains the catalytic activity of the wild-type enzyme, allows for increased tolerance or tolerance of the plant to a herbicide of the phosphonomethylglycine family, and allows for the substantially normal growth or development of the plant, its organs, tissues or cells.

Mutated 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase, gene coding for said protein and transformed plants containing said gene

The invention concerns a chimeric gene containing a DNA sequence coding for drosomycin, a vector containing the chimeric gene, a method for transforming plants and the resulting transformed plants. The drosomycin produced by the plants provides them with resistance to diseases, in particular of fungal origin.

Chimeric gene encoding drosomycin, vector containing it and production of disease-resistant transgenic plants

1) Chimeric gone for conferring to plants an increased tolerance to a herbicide. 2) It comprises, in the direction of transcription, a promoter region, a transit peptide region, a sequence encoding glyphosate tolerance and a polyadenylation signal region, wherein the promoter region consists of at least one promoter of a plant histone gene enabling the expression of the herbicide tolerance protein in the regions of glyphosate accumulation. 3) Production of glyphosate-tolerant plants.

Chimeric gene for the transformation of plants

Isolated DNA sequence which can serve as terminator region in a chimeric gene capable of being used for the transformation of plants

The present invention provides a DNA sequence encoding an oxalate oxidase. The oxalate oxidase may be used for the resistance of plants to diseases caused by Sclerotinia sp. It may be provided by a chimeric gene and a vector containing the coding sequence. It may be used to confer on plants an increased resistance to diseases caused by Sclerotinia sp.

Production of plants resistant to attacks by sclerotinia sclerotiorum by the introduction of a gene encoding an oxalate oxidase

The present invention provides a DNA sequence encoding an oxalate oxidase. The oxalate oxydase may be used for the resistance of plants to diseases caused by Sclerotinia sp. It may be provided by a chimeric gene and a vector containing the coding sequence. It may be used to confer on plants an increased resistance to diseases caused by Sclerotinia sp.

Production of plants resistant to attacks by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by the introduction of a gene encoding an oxalate oxidase

Helianthinin is an 11S seed storage protein of sunflower embryos. The present invention is directed to the 5' regulatory regions of helianthinin genes. More particularly, the present invention is directed to specific cis-regulatory elements of this regulatory region which direct tissue-specific gene expression. The present invention provides chimeric genes comprising the cis-regulatory elements linked to a coding sequence from a heterologous gene to control expression of these genes. The chimeric genes provided by the instant invention are useful in conferring herbicide resistance and improved seed lipid quality to transgenic plants

Chimeric plant genes based on upstream regulatory elements of

Helianthinin is an 11S seed storage protein of sunflower embryos. The present invention is directed to the 5' regulatory regions of helianthinin genes. More particularly, the present invention is directed to specific cis-regulatory elements of this regulatory region which direct tissue-specific, temporally-regulated, or abscisic acid-responsive gene expression. The present invention provides chimeric genes comprising the cis-regulatory elements linked to a coding sequence from a heterologous gene to control expression of these genes. The chimeric genes provided by the instant invention are useful in conferring herbicide resistance and improved seed lipid quality to transgenic plants.

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Saint Cyr au Mont d'or, France

Georges L Freyssinet