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
2000-11-29
2003-08-05
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
C800S278000, C800S288000, C800S292000, C435S419000, C435S421000, C435S468000, C435S470000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06603065
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a novel process for transforming hereditary material of plants and to the plant products obtained by said process.
Plants having novel and/or improved properties can be produced by introducing new genetic information into plant material.
BACKGROUND
In view of the rapid rise in world population and the concomitant increase in the need for food and raw materials, increasing the yield of useful plants as well as the increased extraction of plant storage substances, and in particular advances in the field of nutrition and medicine, are among the most urgent tasks of biological research. In this connection, the following essential aspects may be mentioned by way of example: strengthening the resistance of useful plants to unfavourable soil or climatic conditions as well as to disease and pests; increasing resistance to plant protective agents such as insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and bactericides; and a useful change in the nutrient content or of the harvest yield of plants. Such desirable effects could be produced generally by induction or increased formation of protective substances, valuable proteins or toxins. A corresponding influence on the hereditary material of plants can be brought about, for example, by inserting a specific foreign gene into plant cells without utilising conventional breeding methods.
The transfer of novel DNA sequences into plant cells using genetically manipulated plant infecting bacteria has been described in the literature in a number of publications, for example Nature, Vol. 303, 209-213 (1983); Nature, Vol. 304, 184-187 (1983); Scientific American 248(6), 50-59 (1983); EMBO-Journal 2(6), 987-995 (1983); Science 222, 476-482 (1983); Science 223, 247-248 (1984); or Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 80, 4803-4807 (1983). In these publications, the natural properties of these bacteria for infecting plants were utilised to insert new genetic material into plant cells. So far such insertion has been made using preferably
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
itself or the Ti plasmid thereof, and also cauliflower mosaic virus.
SUMMARY
In contradistinction thereto, the novel process of this invention makes possible the direct transfer of a gene without the use of biological vectors, in particular, without the T-DNA border regions of the Ti-plasmid. Pathogens have been used as vectors in the known processes. As the process of this invention is performed without pathogens, the limitations imposed by the host specificity of pathogens also do not apply. The development of the plants on which the novel process of transformation is carried out is not impaired by said process.
In addition to the process for transforming hereditary material of plants, the present invention also relates to the products obtainable by said process, in particular protoplasts and plant material derived therefrom, for example cells and tissues, in particular complete plants that have been regenerated from said protoplasts and the genetically identical progeny thereof.
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Hohn Barbara
Hohn Thomas
Mandak Vaclav
Paszkowski Jerzy
Potrykus Ingo
Fox David T.
Schwartz Randee S.
Syngenta Investment Corporation
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