Recombinant plant expressing non-competitively binding BT insecticidal crystal proteins

US6172281A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Aventis CropScience N.V. · BE

Inventors

• Herman Van Mellaert · Leuven, BE
• Johan Botterman · Zevergem, BE
• Jeroen Van Rie · Eeklo, BE
• Henk Joos · Aalter, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 9, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 22, 2018

Classification

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

Abstract

Plants made resistant to insects by transforming their nuclear genome with two or more DNA sequences, each encoding a different non-competitively binding B. thuringiensis protoxin or insecticidal part thereof, preferably the toxin thereof.