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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nicole Chaubet, Strasbourg, FR;
Claude Gigot, Strasbourg, FR;
Georges Freyssinet, St Cyr au Mont d'Or, FR;
Bernard Leroux, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michel Lebrun, Montpellier, FR;
Alain Sailland, Lyons, FR;
Assignee:
Aventis Crop Science, Lyons, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 ; A01H 4/00 ; C12N 5/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01H 5/00 ; A01H 4/00 ; C12N 5/04 ;
Abstract
1) Chimeric gone for conferring to plants an increased tolerance to a herbicide. 2) It comprises, in the direction of transcription, a promoter region, a transit peptide region, a sequence encoding glyphosate tolerance and a polyadenylation signal region, wherein the promoter region consists of at least one promoter of a plant histone gene enabling the expression of the herbicide tolerance protein in the regions of glyphosate accumulation. 3) Production of glyphosate-tolerant plants.