Heterologous integration of regulatory elements to alter gene expression in wheat cells and wheat plants

US11866719B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC. · US

Inventors

• Tomá{hacek over (s)} Cermák · Brookline, US
• Richard Bailey Flavell · Thousand Oaks, US
• Michael Andreas Kock · Schifferstadt, DE
• Eva Konecna · Brookline, US
• Yajie Niu · Lexington, US
• Michael Lee Nuccio · Salem, US
• Jennifer A. Raji · Waltham, US
• Randall William Shultz · Acton, US
• Davide Sosso · Villaggio Breda, IT
• Maria Margarita D. Unson · Pawcatuck, US
• John Patrick CASEY, JR. · Boston, US
• Jonathan Jones · Norwich, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 2019
• Grant date: Jan 9, 2024
• Expiry date: Aug 21, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8279
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The disclosure relates to precise modifications in wheat plant genomes including the heterologous integration of nucleic acid sequences that include a regulatory element at a predetermined locus. Also provided are wheat cells, wheat plants, wheat seeds, and processed wheat products comprising the modified wheat genomes.