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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1994

Filed:

Oct. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:

Robert T Fraley, Ballwin, MO (US);

Robert B Horsch, St. Louis, MO (US);

Stephen G Rogers, St. Louis, MO (US);

Assignee:

Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; C07H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352404 ; 4351723 ; 4353201 ; 536 232 ; 536 241 ;
Abstract

In one aspect the present invention relates to the use of viral promoters in the expression of chimeric genes in plant cells. In another aspect this invention relates to chimeric genes which are capable of being expressed in plant cells, which utilize promoter regions derived from viruses which are capable of infecting plant cells. One such virus comprises the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV). Two different promoter regions have been derived from the CaMV genome and ligated to heterologous coding sequences to form chimeric genes. These chimeric genes have been shown to be expressed in plant cells. This invention also relates to plant cells, plant tissue, and differentiated plants which contain and express the chimeric genes of this invention.


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