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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Detlef Weigel, Del Mar, CA (US);
Ilha Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H / ; C12N / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
800205 ; 536 2371 ; 536231 ; 536 241 ; 435 691 ; 4351723 ; 435410 ; 435418 ; 435419 ;
Abstract
A novel tissue-specific promoter is provided which has been isolated from the upstream non-coding region of a plant UFO gene. This promoter, operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence expressing a product of interest, initiates and regulates the transcription of such sequences in a shoot meristem-specific tissue.