Disease resistance factors
OwnerKarlene H. Butler, Saverio Carl Falco +8inventors
InventorsKarlene H. Butler, Saverio Carl Falco, Omolayo O. Famodu, Yiwen Fang, Feng Han, Elmer P. Heppard, Zhan-Bin Liu, Joan T. Odell, J. Antoni Rafalski, Guo-Hua Miao
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Abstract
This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding corn (Zea mays), rice (Oryza sativa), or wheat (Triticum aestivum) NPR1 homologs. The invention also relates to the construction of a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the NPR1 homolog, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene results in production of altered levels of the NPR1 homolog in a transformed host cell.
Claims25
An isolated polynucleotide that encodes an NPR1 polypeptide having a sequence identity of at least 80% based on the Clustal method of alignment when compared to a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:
- 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16.
An isolated NPR1 polypeptide that has a sequence identity of at least 80% based on the Clustal method compared to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:
- 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16.
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