Promoters for epidermis-specific expression of desired coding sequences in transgenic plants

US7608756B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• IPK Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung · DE
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US
• UNIVERSITÄT ZÜRICH · CH

Inventors

• Patrick Schweizer · Quedlinburg, DE
• Robert Dudler · Uster, CH
• Paul Schulze-Lefert · Norwich, GB
• Ralph Panstruga · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2004
• Grant date: Oct 27, 2009
• Expiry date: Oct 7, 2024

Classification

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

Abstract

The invention relates to methods of producing transgenic plants including pathogen resistant plants with recombinant nucleic acid molecules comprising promoter regions which provides expression of a desired transgene in epidermis-specific manner, and transgenic plants produced by said methods.