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US 2003/0196226 A1Published application
Natural herbicide resistance in soybeans
AssigneeNatural Genes, Inc.
InventorWilliam H. Davis
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InventorWilliam H. Davis
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The invention provides a process for selecting soybean plants and generating soybean lines, which exhibit genetically-controlled herbicide resistance in the absence of genetic engineering, soybean lines that are herbicide resistant, and the naturally-occurring genes that confer herbicide resistance that are exposed by the aforementioned selection process. The process allows for the identification of soybean germplasm that contains naturally-occurring herbicide resistance genes and for the isolation of individual herbicide resistant soybean plants from that germplasm. The process also provides a technique whereby individual plants that express the natural gene(s) for herbicide resistance can be selected from a population of plants derived from seed representing the germplasm. Such herbicide resistance is genetically-controlled and can be reliably expressed and transferred to other soybean plants by conventional plant breeding methods. In addition the genes that control the herbicide resistance that are identified by these processes can be isolated and cloned for future biotechnological applications to generate herbicide resistance in plants or plant lines that do not contain natural herbicide resistance genes within their germplasm.
A process for selecting a soybean plant which exhibits genetically-controlled herbicide resistance that is not attributable to genetic engineering comprising:
A soybean seed capable of forming a soybean plant having genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is attributable to the homozygous gene pair NGR1NGR1 obtainable from soybean line NatGen 1 having ATCC Accession No. ______ or its descendants.
A soybean seed capable of forming a soybean plant having genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is attributable to the homozygous gene pair NGR2NGR2 obtainable from soybean line NatGen 2 having ATCC Accession No. ______ or its descendants.
A soybean seed capable of forming a soybean plant having genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is attributable to the homozygous gene pair NGR3NGR3 obtainable from soybean line NatGen 3 having ATCC Accession No. ______ or its descendants.
A soybean seed capable of forming a soybean plant having genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is attributable to the homozygous gene pair NGR4NGR4 obtainable from soybean line NatGen 4 having ATCC Accession No. ______ or its descendants.
A soybean seed capable of forming a soybean plant having genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is attributable to the homozygous gene pair NGR5NGR5 obtainable from soybean line NatGen 5 having ATCC Accession No. ______ or its descendants.
A soybean seed capable of forming a soybean plant having genetically-controlled glyphosate herbicide resistance that is attributable to the homozygous gene pair NGR6NGR6 obtainable from soybean line NatGen 6 having ATCC Accession No. ______ or its descendants.
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