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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2008
Emil M. Orozco, Jr., Cochranville, PA (US);
Wesley B. Bruce, Raleigh, NC (US);
Rebecca E. Cahoon, Lincoln, NE (US);
Emil M. Orozco, Jr., Cochranville, PA (US);
Wesley B. Bruce, Raleigh, NC (US);
Rebecca E. Cahoon, Lincoln, NE (US);
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an auxin transport protein. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a substantial portion of the auxin transport protein, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the auxin transport protein in a transformed host cell. The present invention also relates to methods using the auxin transport protein in modulating root development, and in discovering compounds with potential herbicidal activity.