Herbicide-resistant hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenases

US10619138B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Stefan Tresch · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Johannes Hutzler · Waldsee, DE
• Maciej Pasternak · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Liliana Parra Rapado · Kohlhof, DE
• Jens Lerchl · Ladenburg, DE
• Gilbert Ebai Besong · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Helmut Kraus · Cologne, DE
• Matthias Witschel · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Jill Marie Paulik · Cary, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 12, 2014
• Grant date: Apr 14, 2020
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Y113/11027
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention refers to method for producing a transgenic plant with increased herbicide tolerance or resistance as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant, comprising transforming a plant cell or a plant cell nucleus or a plant tissue with a nucleic acid molecule encoding a HPPD polypeptide, as well as to the nucleic acid, and plants with increased HPPD-inhibiting herbicide tolerance or resistance comprising the nucleic acid of the invention.