Method of producing pathogen-resistant plants

US6271442A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Jeff Schell · Cologne, DE
• Jurgen Logemann · Leiden, NL
• Guido Jach · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE
• John Mundy · Copenhagen, DK

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 3, 1997
• Grant date: Aug 7, 2001
• Expiry date: Jan 3, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Y302/01039
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Described are a method of producing pathogen-resistant plants in which a protein-synthesis inhibitor gene or a fusion product of the protein-synthesis inhibitor gene or of the protein-synthesis inhibitor protein with ligands permitting specific attachment to cells is introduced into the genotype of plants under the control of an active promotor, and the use of the protein-synthesis inhibitor protein obtained by introducing the protein-synthesis inhibitor gene into the bacterial overproducers for making pharmaceutical preparations.