Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.

Monsanto Technology LLC

John Kao

Stanislaw Flasinski

Shihshieh Huang

William Clyde Johnson

Brad Kane Gabor

Alessandra Frizzi

Charles Hagen

Raquel Salati

Terry Berke

Carl Martin Jones

Chuong Phan

The present invention provides gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by multiple plant viruses. The present invention relates to achieving a plant protective effect through the identification of target coding sequences and the use of recombinant DNA technologies for post-transcriptionally repressing or inhibiting expression of the target coding sequences of plant-parasitic viruses. Protein-expression based approaches may also be utilized to augment phenotype resistance. Thus, transcription of a single transgenic event comprising one or more plant expression cassettes can allow for broad spectrum resistance of a plant to multiple plant viral strains and species among the geminiviruses, tospoviruses, and potexviruses.

Multiple virus resistance in plants

The present invention relates to novel methods of producing interspecific hybrids betweenandand progeny thereof. In addition, the present invention provides for the hybrid pepper plants, and parts thereof including their fruit, tissues, and seeds, resulting from a cross betweenandthat have nuclear genetic material from bothand. The hybrid pepper plants of the invention may have a variety of traits including resistance to geminiviruses, tobamoviruses, and resistance to damage by

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The present invention provides gene targets, constructs and methods for the genetic control of plant disease caused by multiple plant viruses. The present invention relates to achieving a plant protective effect through the identification of target coding sequences and the use of recombinant DNA technologies for post-transcriptionally repressing or inhibiting expression of the target coding sequences of plant-parasitic viruses. Protein-expression based approaches may also be utilized to augment phenotype resistance. Thus, transcription of a single transgenic event comprising one or more plant expression cassettes can allow for broad spectrum resistance of a plant to multiple plant viral strains and species among the, and

A squash plant having high level geminivirus resistance and a method for developing a squash plant having high resistance to geminvirus.

Squash with improved disease resistance

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