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Virus resistant potato plants

US6015940A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 7, 1992
Grant dateJan 18, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 7, 2012

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  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC07K14/415
  • WIPO fieldBiotechnology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Potato plants and tubers that express a pokeweed antiviral protein and are thereby rendered resistant to infection by at least one of PVX and PVY and a method therefore are disclosed. A variant DNA sequence for the spring leaf form of pokeweed antiviral protein is also disclosed.

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