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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2021
Kws Saat SE & Co. Kgaa, Einbeck, DE;
Andreas Houben, Quedlinburg, DE;
Raheleh Karimi-Ashiyani, Tehran, IR;
Takayoshi Ishii, Gatersleben, DE;
Nils Stein, Quedlinburg, DE;
Jochen Kumlehm, Potsdam, DE;
Christof Bolduan, Einbeck, DE;
Frank Breuer, Einbeck, DE;
Monika Kloiber-Maitz, Einbeck, DE;
Markus Niessen, Laatzen, DE;
Milena Ouzunova, Göttingen, DE;
Britta Schulz, Einbeck, DE;
Silke Wieckhorst, Einbeck, DE;
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA, Einbeck, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to non-transgenic and transgenic plants, preferably crop plants, comprising a mutation causing an alteration of the amino acid sequence in the CATD domain of the centromere histone H3 (CENH3), preferably within the loop1 or the α2-helix of the CATD domain, which have the biological activity of a haploid inducer. Further, the present invention provides methods of generating the plants of the present invention and haploid and double haploid plants obtainable by crossing the plants of the present invention with wildtype plants as well as methods of facilitating cytoplasm exchange.