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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
May. 24, 2004
Applicants:
Omolayo O. Famodu, Newark, DE (US);
J. Antoni Rafalski, Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventors:
Omolayo O. Famodu, Newark, DE (US);
J. Antoni Rafalski, Wilmington, DE (US);
Assignee:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 9/02 (2006.01); C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C12N 1/20 (2006.01); C07H 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding a sorbitol biosynthetic enzyme. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the sorbitol biosynthetic enzyme, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the sorbitol biosynthetic enzyme in a transformed host cell.