Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Sungene Gmbh & Co. Kgaa

Wolfgang Lein

Uwe Sonnewald

Thomas Ehrhardt

Karin Herbers

Helke Hillebrand

Ralf-Michael Schmidt

Irene Kunze

Marc Stitt Nigel

Andreas Reindl

Annette Freund

Ute Heim

Eric Glickmann

Rüdiger Hell

Ricarda Jost

Kirsten Deist

Frederik Börnke

Frederik Boernke

The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with the expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for the production of food and animal feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.

Expression cassettes for transgenic expression of nucleic acids

The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors, which contain vegetable constitutive promoters and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for the transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences preferably selection markers in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention also relates to transgenic plants that have been transformed using these expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation products derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for producing food and animal feed agents, seeds, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.

The present invention relates to serine hydroxymethyltransferase (E.C. 2.1.2.1) as novel target for herbicides, and to nucleic acid sequences encoding a polypeptide with the biological activity of a serine hydroxymethyltransferase, which, when not present, bring about growth retardation symptoms and chlorotic leaves, comprising the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID No:3, and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence or the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO:7 and functional equivalents of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequence. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences, of functional analogs of the SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:7 or of polypeptides encoded by one of the abovementioned nucleic acid sequences in a method for identifying herbicidally active compounds which inhibit serine hydroxymethyltransferases, and to the use of these compounds which have been identified by the method as herbicides.

Nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide with the biological activity of a serine hydroxymethyltransferase

Serine hydroxymethyltransferase as a target for herbicides

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Potsdam, Germany

Wolfgang Lein