Recombinant plant expressing non-competitively binding Bt insecticidal cryatal proteins

US6855873B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Bayer Bioscience 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: Sep 13, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 15, 2005
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2021

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.