Phosphinothricin-resistance gene, and its use

US5276268A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Eckhard Strauch · Bielefeld, DE
• Walter Arnold · Bielefeld, DE
• Renate Alijah · Bielefeld, DE
• Wolfgang Wohlleben · Bielefeld, DE
• Alfred Puhler · Bielefeld, DE
• Peter Eckes · Kelkheim, DE
• Gunter Donn · Hofheim, DE
• Eugen Uhlmann · Königstein, DE
• Friedrich Hein · Munich, DE
• Friedrich Wengenmayer · Hofheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 29, 1991
• Grant date: Jan 4, 1994
• Expiry date: Jul 29, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12P41/007
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The phosphinothricin (PTC)-resistance gene isolated from the genome of Streptomyces viridochromogenes DSM 40736 is, after adaptation to the codon usage in plants, synthesized and incorporated into gene structures which make plants resistant to PTC after expression therein.