University of California

Duke University

Maxyag, Inc.

Yuelin Zhang

Pamela C Ronald

Mark Kinkema

Xinnian Dong

Maw Shenq Chern

The present invention provides methods of identifying a plant containing a lesion in a gene sequence flanked in a wild type chromosome by known polynucleotide sequences. The methods comprise providing a collection of nucleic acids from source plants, providing a data base that associates each nucleic acid with its source plant, amplifying the collection of nucleic acids, thereby detecting the lesion, and using the database to identify the source plant carrying the lesion.

Method for obtaining a plant with a genetic lesion in a gene sequence

The present invention provides nucleic acids that encode bZIP polypeptides that are capable of interacting with NPR1. The present invention also provides for bZIP polypeptides that are capable of interacting with NPR1 as well as transgenic plants comprising a nucleic acids that encode bZIP polypeptides that are capable of interacting with NPR1. Also provided by the present invention is a method for enhancing resistance of plants to pathogens by introducing a recombinant expression cassette comprising a plant promoter operably linked to a polynucleotide sequence encoding a bZIP polypeptide that interacts with NPR1. The present invention also provides for a method of identifying additional bZIP polypeptides that interact with NPR1.

DNA binding proteins that interact with NPR1

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Yuelin Zhang