Treatment of fruits or vegetables with hypersensitive response elicitor to inhibit postharvest disease or desiccation
US7915217B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 17, 2004 |
| Grant date | Mar 29, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 17, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S435/849
- WIPO fieldBiotechnology
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
The present invention relates to a methods of inhibiting postharvest disease or desiccation in a fruit or vegetable, either by treating a fruit or vegetable with a hypersensitive response elicitor protein or polypeptide under conditions effective to inhibit postharvest disease or desiccation, or by providing a transgenic plant or plant seed transformed with a DNA molecule encoding a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein and growing the transgenic plant or transgenic plant produced from the transgenic plant seed under conditions effective to inhibit a postharvest disease or desiccation in a fruit or vegetable harvested from the transgenic plant. Also disclosed are DNA constructs and expression systems, host cells, and transgenic plants containing the DNA construct.
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