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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2003
Applicants:

Frederick M. Ausubel, Newton, MA (US);

Brian J. Staskawicz, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Andrew F. Bent, Madison, WI (US);

Douglas Dahlbeck, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Fumiaki Katagiri, San Diego, CA (US);

Barbara N. Kunkel, St. Louis, MO (US);

Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Guo-liang Yu, Berkeley, CA (US);

Barbara Baker, Berkeley, CA (US);

Jeffrey Ellis, Weetangera Act 2614, AU;

John Salmeron, Hillsborough, NC (US);

Inventors:

Frederick M. Ausubel, Newton, MA (US);

Brian J. Staskawicz, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Andrew F. Bent, Madison, WI (US);

Douglas Dahlbeck, Castro Valley, CA (US);

Fumiaki Katagiri, San Diego, CA (US);

Barbara N. Kunkel, St. Louis, MO (US);

Michael Nicholas Mindrinos, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Guo-Liang Yu, Berkeley, CA (US);

Barbara Baker, Berkeley, CA (US);

Jeffrey Ellis, Weetangera Act 2614, AU;

John Salmeron, Hillsborough, NC (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention relates to a method of identifying a plant disease-resistance gene that includes the steps of (a) providing a plant tissue sample; (b)introducing by biolistic transformation into the plant tissue sample a candidate plant disease-resistance gene; (c) expressing the candidate plant disease-resistance gene within the plant tissue sample; and (d) determining whether the plant tissue sample exhibits a disease-resistance response, whereby a response identifies a plant disease-resistance gene.


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