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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1998
Chee-Kok Chin, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Chunlin Wang, Piscataway, NJ (US);
Jinsong Xing, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides pathogen-resistant transgenic plants and methods of making the plants. The transgenic plants display enhanced resistance to a variety of fungal, bacterial and viral plant pathogens due to expression of a gene that increases the unsaturated fatty acid content of the plant's cells, as compared with an equivalent, but non-transformed plant. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a plant expressing a heterologous &Dgr;-9 desaturase gene from yeast, which particularly increases cytosolic quantities of 16:1, 16:2 and 18:1 fatty acids.