Novartis Ag

Sandoz Gmbh

Ralph M Sinibaldi

Paul Shartzer Dietrich

Lynn E Murry

Irvin J Mettler

Sharon C Alfinito

The present invention is drawn to a novel DNA construct comprising an expression cassette having a constitutive promoter which functions in plant cells operably linked to a maize alcohol dehydrogenase intron, a DNA sequence of a gene encoding a Cry 1Ab protein, and a terminator functional in plants and optionally further comprising a second cassette including a promoter which functions in plants operably linked to a maize alcohol dehydrogenase intron, a DNA sequence of a gene encoding for phosphinothricin acetyl transferase, and a terminator functional in plants wherein the two cassettes are transcribed in the same direction. Also provided are transgenic plants, particularly maize plants, having such a construct stably incorporated into their genomes.

Nucleic acid construct comprising bacillus thuringiensis cry1Ab gene

Novel processes for introducing DNA into plant material utilizing non-pulsed electric current, and plant cell lines, differentiated plant tissues and plants produced by said processes.

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Ralph M Sinibaldi