Herbicide-resistant hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenases

US11248234B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Stefan Tresch · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Maciej Pasternak · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Liliana Parra Rapado · Kohlhof, DE
• Jill Marie Paulik · Cary, US
• Jens Lerchl · Ladenburg, DE
• Gilbert Ebai Besong · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Markus Kordes · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE
• Thomas Mietzner · Annweiler am Trifels, DE
• Eva Stauffer · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 10, 2016
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 10, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N9/0069
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• 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 mutated 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.