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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2007
Applicants:
Holger Schultheiβ, Neustadt, DE;
Markus Frank, Neustadt, DE;
Caroline Höfle, Wolfersdorf, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BASF Plant Science GmbH, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/09 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of generating or increasing resistance to at least one biotrophic pathogen in a plant or a part of a plant by increasing the protein quantity or function of at least one Bax Inhibitor-1 (BI-1) protein in at least one part of the plant. Moreover, the invention relates to polypeptide sequences and nucleic acid sequences which code for a BI-1 protein, and to expression cassettes, vectors and organisms which comprise such sequences or such a protein.