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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2010
Feng Chen, Knoxville, TN (US);
Nan Zhao, Knoxville, TN (US);
Gregory Russell Armel, Knoxville, TN (US);
Feng Chen, Knoxville, TN (US);
Nan Zhao, Knoxville, TN (US);
Gregory Russell Armel, Knoxville, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
The subject invention provides novel polynucleotides and polypeptides encoding a methyltransferase. The subject invention provides novel plants that express the methyltrasferase disclosed herein and are resistant to auxin-based herbicides. The subject invention also provides transgenic plants have been transformed with one or more other herbicide resistance genes such that the plants are resistant to the application of auxin-based herbicides and one or more other herbicides.