E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

Victor Llaca

Stephen M Allen

Kanwarpal Singh Dhugga

Lu Liu

Howard P Hershey

Xiaomu Niu

Haiyin Wang

Dale F Loussaert

Kevin A Fengler

Zhongsen Li

Susanne Groh

Joshua K Young

Stanley Luck

James J English

Bernhard Rietmann

Marymar Goncalves Butruille

Stephane Deschamps

Sandra Cristina Kothe Milach

Emerson Limberger

Elcio De Oliveira Alves

Methods for the identification of variant recognition sites for rare cutting engineered double strand break inducing agents and compositions thereof are provided. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, yeast, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the of variant recognition sites. Various methods of identifying variant recognition sites with increased substrate activity for a rare cutting engineered double strand break inducing agents are provided.

Methods for the identification of variant recognition sites for rare-cutting engineered double-strand-break-inducing agents and compositions and uses thereof

The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying maize plants that have increased or decreased resistance to tropical rust. The methods use molecular markers to identify and select plants with increased resistance to tropical rust or to identify and counter-select plants with decreased resistance to tropical rust. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention. Also of interest are methods used to correlate allelic variation with a trait of interest.

Genetic loci associated with resistance to tropical rust in maize

The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying maize plants that have increased cell wall digestibility. The methods use molecular markers to identify and select plants with increased cell wall digestibility or to identify and counter-select plants with decreased cell wall digestibility. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.

Genetic loci associated with cell wall digestibility in maize

This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding high affinity nitrate transport components. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of nitrate transport components, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct may alter levels of the nitrate transport components in a transformed host cell.

Nitrate transport components

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