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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2023
Kws Saat SE & Co. Kgaa, Einbeck, DE;
Aurelie Bak, St. Louis, MO (US);
Dietmar Stahl, Einbeck, DE;
Daniel Stirnweis, Gottingen, DE;
Daniela Scheuermann, Einbeck, DE;
Bettina Kessel, Einbeck, DE;
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA, Einbeck, DE;
Abstract
The present application provides a new technology to confer or enhance insect resistance and, optionally also resistance to fungal pathogens in plants. In particular, the present invention provides a method for conferring or increasing resistance or tolerance to insect and optionally also to fungal pathogens in maize and oil seed rape (OSR) by targeting the endogenous Lox3 gene. By introducing either a gene silencing construct, a genome editing system or a genome modification, which leads to a targeted knock-down or knock-out of the Lox3 gene endogenous to the plant, a new or increased resistance to insect and, optionally fungal pathogens can be created.