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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:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Franzine Smith, Geneva, NY (US);
Alan D. Blowers, St. Charles, IL (US);
Joyce Van Eck, Ithaca, NY (US);
John Sanford, Geneva, NY (US);
Assignee:
Sanford Scientific, Inc., Waterloo, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/04 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/531 ; C12N 1/587 ; A01H 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/04 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/531 ; C12N 1/587 ; A01H 5/00 ;
Abstract
The invention provides antimicrobial peptides, nucleic acid constructs encoding them, methods for transforming plant cells, and transgenic plant tissue that expresses the antimicrobial peptide genes and thereby exhibit improved resistance to plant pathogens.