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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Francis P. McCormick, Albany, CA (US);
Kenneth A. Barton, Middleton, WI (US);
William F. Swain, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/533 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/584 ; A01H 5/00 ; A01H 5/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/533 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/584 ; A01H 5/00 ; A01H 5/10 ;
Abstract
A strategy for effecting virus resistance in plants causes the transcription in the plant cells of negative RNA strands which are substantially complementary to a target RNA strand. The target RNA strand can be an mRNA transcript created in gene expression, a viral RNA, or other RNA present in the plant cells. The negative RNA strand is complementary to at least a portion of the target RNA strand to inhibit its activity in vivo.