IRES enabled gene trapping in plants

US7348179B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Icon Genetics GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Yuri Gleba · Berlin, DE
• Newell Bascomb · Lawrenceville, US
• Mark Bossie · Lawrence, US
• Gerald Hall · Levittown, US
• Thomas Petty · Tempe, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 17, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2008
• Expiry date: Jun 29, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12N15/8213
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed are methods for introducing nucleic acid constructs called “landing pads” in plant genes for the insertion of transgenes, and methods for introducing the transgenes into the landing pads. Transgenic plants and plant parts produced by the methods, and seeds derived from the plants, are also disclosed.