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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1999
Frederick M. Ausubel, Newton, MA (US);
Brian J. Staskawicz, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Andrew F. Bent, Piedmont, CA (US);
Douglas Dahlbeck, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Fumiaki Katagiri, Somerville, MA (US);
Barbara N. Kunkel, St. Louis, MO (US);
Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Somerville, MA (US);
Guo-Liang Yu, Darnestown, MD (US);
Barbara Baker, Richmond, CA (US);
Jeffrey Ellis, Macquarie Act, AU;
John Salmeron, Hillborough, NC (US);
Other;
Abstract
Disclosed is substantially pure DNA encoding an,Rps2 polypeptide; substantially pure Rps2 polypeptide; and methods of using such DNA to express the Rps2 polypeptide in plant cells and whole plants to provide, in transgenic plants, disease resistance to pathogens. Also disclosed are conserved regions characteristic of the RPS family and primers and probes for the identification and isolation of additional RPS disease-resistance genes.