Methods for conferring insect resistance to a monocot using a perioxidase coding sequence

US6002068A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Novartis Finance Corporation · US
• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · US
• The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · US

Inventors

• Laura S. Privalle · Durham, US
• Juan J. Estruch · Durham, US
• Martha S. Wright · Cary, US
• Martha Beale Hill · Hillsborough, US
• Patrick F. Dowd · Peoria, US
• Lawrence M. Lagrimini · Lincoln, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 1996
• Grant date: Dec 14, 1999
• Expiry date: Dec 19, 2016

Classification

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

Abstract

The present invention relates, in general, to methods and compositions for controlling insects in monocotyledonous plants (monocots), particularly maize. More precisely, the present invention relates to (1) a method for controlling insects comprising feeding or contacting an insect with an insecticidal amount of transgenic monocotyledonous plant cells comprising a recombinant DNA sequence comprising a coding sequence encoding peroxidase and (2) a fertile transgenic monocot plant comprising a recombinant DNA sequence comprising a coding sequence encoding peroxidase.