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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1998
Anthony John Conner, Christchurch, NZ;
New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research Limited, Cantebury, NZ;
Abstract
The invention provides a method for biasing a crop plant which is heterozygous for a transgene towards the production of seeds which carry the transgene comprising the step of contacting the crop plant containing a gene construct comprising the transgene coding for resistance to a specific phytotoxin with the specific phytotoxin one or more times during the life of the crop plant. The method achieves this through selective inhibition of phytotoxin-sensitive plant ovules, embryos and pollen. The method has particular application to the production of open pollinated and synthetic varieties of crop plants, such as alfalfa synthetic varieties.