Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Plant – seedling – plant seed – or plant part – per se – Higher plant – seedling – plant seed – or plant part
Reexamination Certificate
2003-07-07
2010-06-22
Fox, David T (Department: 1638)
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Plant, seedling, plant seed, or plant part, per se
Higher plant, seedling, plant seed, or plant part
C800S287000, C800S288000, C800S294000, C800S300000, C800S306000, C435S006120, C435S199000, C435S469000
Reexamination Certificate
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07741541
ABSTRACT:
A method for obtaining improved fertility restorer lines for male sterile crop plants and a DNA construct for use in said method are disclosed. The invention relates to the simultaneous use of two different gene sequences encoding the same protein product, one being the naturally occurring wild type sequence and the other sequence being generated by modification of the wild type sequence for expression in crop plants by using codon degeneracy to avoid homology between the two sequences at the DNA and mRNA levels, each of the said sequences being placed under independent transcriptional control of different overlapping plant tissue-specific regulatory elements in the same DNA construct.
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Bisht Naveen Chandra
Burma Pradeep Kumar
Gupta Vibha
Jagannath Arun
Pental Deepak
Dhara Vegetable Oil and Foods Company Limited
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Fox David T
University of Delhi South Campus
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