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Gregory R Heck

Jinsong You

James Arthur Baum

Ty T Vaughn

Stanislaw Flasinski

Geert Plaetinck

Catherine Hironaka

Pascale Feldmann

James Kevin Roberts

Scott R Baerson

William P Donovan

Edwards M Allen

Marianne Malven

Yuanji Zhang

Virginia Ursin

James D Masucci

Tichafa R I Munyikwa

Ganesh M Kishore

Paul C C Feng

Joanne J Fillatti

Timothy W Conner

Toni Alols Voelker

Tedd D Elich

Jingdong Liu

Murtaza F Alibhai

Youlin Qi

Joel E Ream

James K Roberts

William Carlton Stallings

Scott C Johnson

Kunsheng Wu

David K Kovalic

Stanton B Dotson

Michael A Hall

Claire A CaJacob

Wendy T Maddelein

Carl Frederick Behr

Xiaohong Shi

Uma Rao Sukuru

Stephen R Penn

Irene Maria Antonia Nooren

Jean C Goley

Kenneth John Piller

Sherri M Brown

Michael A Stephens

Irene Nooren

Sudabathula R Rao

Sherry J Logusch

Claire Cajacob

Linda L Lutfiyya

Thomas R Adams

Scott E Andersen

Yongwei Cao

Jennifer Listello

Jingrui Wu

Michael D Edgerton

Donald E Nelson

Zhidong Xie

Qingyi Zeng

Thomas J Peters

Eugene W Logusch

Wendy Maddelein

Claire A Cajacob

James A Baum

Tichafa Ri Munyikwa

Paul C Feng

John K Soteres

Thomas J La Rosa

Garrett J Lee

Cindy L Arnevik

James A Buam

Pascale Feldman

Donna E Fernandez

Raymond Dobert

Damian J Rodriguez

Martha-Ann Post-Beittenmiller

James Masuccii

Paul CC Feng

Tichafa RI Munyiakawa

The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control, By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.

Methods for genetic control of insect infestations in plants and compositions thereof

This invention relates to methods of controlling gene expression or gene suppression in eukaryotic cells. One aspect of this invention includes modifying the degree of silencing of a target gene by use of a modified suppression element. Another aspect includes providing a eukaryotic cell having a desired phenotype resulting from transcription in the eukaryotic cell of a modified suppression element. Also provided are transgenic eukaryotic cells, transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing modified suppression elements, and useful derivatives of such transgenic plant cells, plants, or seeds, such as food or feed products.

Modified gene silencing

The invention provides methods for selecting nucleotide sequences that yield dsRNA-mediated gene suppression in a target organism and enable their uptake by the target organism. The invention further provides expression constructs that confer stabilized expression of such sequences in a transgenic host cell, and methods for their use. Also provided are organisms, cells and tissues prepared by a method of the invention.

Selecting and stabilizing dsRNA constructs

This invention provides plants having resistance to invertebrate pests. More specifically, this invention discloses a non-natural transgenic plant cell expressing at least one invertebrate miRNA in planta for suppression of a target gene of an invertebrate pest or of a symbiont associated with the invertebrate pest. Also provided are recombinant DNA constructs for expression of at least one invertebrate miRNA in planta, a non-natural transgenic plant containing the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, a non-natural transgenic plant grown from the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, and non-natural transgenic seed produced by the non-natural transgenic plants, as well as commodity products produced from a non-natural transgenic plant cell, plant, or seed of this invention. This invention further provides a method of suppressing at least one target gene of an invertebrate pest of a plant or of a symbiont associated with the invertebrate, including providing a plant including the non-natural transgenic plant cell of this invention, wherein the invertebrate is the invertebrate pest, the recombinant DNA is transcribed in the non-natural transgenic plant cell to the recombinant miRNA precursor, and when the invertebrate pest ingests the recombinant miRNA precursor, the at least one target gene is suppressed.

Invertebrate microRNAs

The present invention relates to control of pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions. The invention provides methods and compositions for such control. By feeding one or more recombinant double stranded RNA molecules provided by the invention to the pest, a reduction in pest infestation is obtained through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.

A novelcrystal protein exhibiting insect inhibitory activity is disclosed. Growth ofinsects is significantly inhibited by providing the novel crystal protein ininsect diet. Polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein, transgenic plants and microorganisms that contain the polynucleotides, isolated peptides derived from the crystal protein, and antibodies directed against the crystal protein are also provided. Methods of using the crystal protein and polynucleotides encoding the crystal protein to control Hemipteran insects are also disclosed.

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The present invention provides a DNA construct that confers tolerance to transgenic corn plant. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the PV-ZMGT32(nk603) corn event based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct inserted into the corn genome and of genomic sequences flanking the insertion site.

Methods for producing glyphosate tolerant plants comprising corn event PV-ZMGT32(nk603)

This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.

Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits

Methods for genetic control of insect infestation in plants and compositions thereof

The present invention provides a recombinant DNA molecule that confers herbicide tolerance to transgenic corn plants. Also provided by the present invention are methods for growing a corn plant that tolerate application of glyphosate comprising planting and growing seeds comprising the recombinant DNA molecule and applying glyphosate to the corn plant.

Corn event PV-ZMGT32(nk603) and compositions and methods for detection thereof

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Crystal Lake Park, MO, United States of America

Gregory R Heck