Keygene N.v.

Martin De Vos

Jesse David Munkvold

Matthew Vitabile Dileo

Shital Anilkumar Dixit

Anne Deslattes Mays

Marieke Helena Adriana Van Hulten

Paul Johan Diergaarde

Marinus Willem Prins

Sandra Goritschnig

Anna Maria Tomczak

The invention is in the field of agriculture, in particular in the field of crop protection, more particularly in the field of providing nematode resistance to plants. A method for producing a plant having improved nematode resistance, particularly to root-knot nematodes and/or cyst nematodes, is disclosed, as well as a plant produced by such method.

Nematode resistance

The present invention relates to a new method for increasing drought resistance of a plant. The method encompasses the impairment of the expression of a gene or genes in said plant. In comparison to a plant not manipulated to impair the expression of said gene(s), the plants display improved drought resistance. Also provided are plants and plant product that can be obtained by the method according to the invention.

Drought resistance in plants: UPL4

The present invention relates to a new method for increasing drought resistance of a plant. The method encompasses the impairment of the expression of a gene or genes in said plant. In comparison to a plant not manipulated to impair the expression of said gene(s), the plants display improved drought resistance. Also provided are plants and plant products that can be obtained by the method according to the invention.

Drought resistance in plants: pectinesterase

Trichome specific plant promoters are provided herein. Also provided are transgenic cells and organisms, especially plant cell and plants, comprising such trichome-specific promoter or a chimeric or vector comprising such trichome-specific promoter. The invention further provides methods for expressing nucleic acid sequences in cells and organisms using trichome specific promoters.

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Wageningen, Netherlands

Martin De Vos