Transgenic plants expressing a prokaryotic ammonium dependent asparagine synthetase

US5545819A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Denes Dudits · Szeged, HU
• Katalin Paulovics · Gönc, HU
• Katalin Kalman · Szeged, HU
• Janos Gyorgyey · Szeged, HU
• Ferenc Nagy · Szeged, HU
• Laszlo Bako · Szeged, HU
• Gabor Horvath · Budapest, HU
• Peter Eckes · Kelkheim, DE
• Gunter Donn · Hofheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1994
• Grant date: Aug 13, 1996
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A40/146
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The gene asnA which encodes a prokaryotic ammonium-specific asparagine synthetase (ASN-A) can be introduced into plant cells. Such transformed cells and plants developed therefrom not only tolerate glutamine synthetase inhibitors but are effectively stimulated by such herbicides.