Carmel—haifa University Economic Corp Ltd.

University of California

United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of Agriculture

Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)

Tzion Fahima

Jorge Dubcovsky

Cristobal Uauy

Assaf Distelfeld

Abraham B Korol

Lin Huang

Ann E Blechl

Valentyna Klymiuk

Zeev Frenkel

Alan Howard Schulman

Daolin Fu

Elitsur Yaniv

Andrii Fatiukha

Eviator Nevo

Dina Raats

Isolated DNA of the Wtk1 gene or a functional equivalent capable of conferring resistance to stripe rust, is provided, as well as artificial vectors comprising same, proteins encoded by same and nucleic acid molecules for detecting same. Transgenic plants, as well as cells, seeds, and tissue therefrom which express the Wtk1 gene or a functional equivalent thereof are also provided.

Stripe rust resistance gene Wtk1 (Yr 15) and use thereof

An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes a polypeptide comprising both a steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer (START) domain and a kinase domain is provided, as well as plant cells and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acid molecule, said transgenic plants being resistant to plant diseases.

Kinase-start gene conferring resistance to plant disease and transgenic plants comprising it

The present invention provides wheat NAC nucleic acids and proteins that modulate grain protein content and senescence in plants. Overexpression of a NAC coding sequence can accelerate senescence and increase grain protein content and inhibition of expression can delay senescence. The invention also provides methods of using the nucleic acids to produce transgenic plants with altered grain protein content or senescence.

NAC from wheat for increasing grain protein content

A genotype-independent method for efficiently carrying out pollen-mediated transformation of maize, tomato or melon is described. The method uses pollen pretreated with silicon carbide and DNA to produce transformed plants with high efficiency and reproducibility.

Pollen-mediated method for transformation of maize, tomato or melon

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Kiryat Tivon, Israel

Tzion Fahima