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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
The United States of America As Represented BY the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Kansas State University Research Foundation, Manhattan, KS (US);
John Fellers, Manhattan, KS (US);
Harold N. Trick, Olsburg, KS (US);
Luisa Cruz, Plant City, FL (US);
Jessica Rupp, Manhattan, KS (US);
The United States of America, as represented by The Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, DC (US);
Kansas State University Research Foundation, Manhattan, KS (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a dsRNA construct used to silencing specific eukaryotic translation initiation factor in plants to produce a plant resistant to viruses such as Potyviruses, Luteoviruses, and Furoviruses. More specifically, the plant would be resistant to viruses such as Wheat streak mosaic virus, Triticum mosaic virus, Soil bourne mosaic virus, or Barley yellow dwarf virus. Also disclosed are non-transgenic wheat plants having the genes for eIF(iso)4E-2 or eIF4G silenced.