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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2009
Applicants:
Cyril B. Zipfel, Norwich, GB;
Jonathan D. G. Jones, Norwich, GB;
Inventors:
Cyril B. Zipfel, Norwich, GB;
Jonathan D. G. Jones, Norwich, GB;
Assignee:
Two Blades Foundation, Evanston, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/82 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/8281 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods are provided for enhancing the resistance of plants to bacterial pathogens. The methods involve transforming a plant with a polynucleotide molecule comprising a plant promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes a plant receptor that binds specifically with bacterial elongation factor-Tu. Further provided are expression cassettes, transformed plants, seeds, and plant cells that are produced by such methods.