Transgenic plants for mitigating introgression of genetically engineered genetic traits
AssigneeYeda Research and Development Co. Ltd.
InventorsJonathan Gressel, Hani Al-Ahmad
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Abstract
Genetic mechanisms for mitigating the effects of introgression of a genetically engineered genetic trait of a cultivated crop to an undesirable, interbreeding related species.
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A method of obtaining a cultivated crop capable of mitigating the effects of introgression of at least one genetically engineered, commercially desirable genetic trait to an undesirable, uncultivated interbreeding species related to the cultivated crop, the method comprising transforming a population of plants of the cultivated crop to co-express the at least one genetically engineered, commercially desirable genetic trait, and at least one genetically linked, mitigating genetic trait, wherein said mitigating genetic trait is selected such that an undesirable, uncultivated interbreeding species related to the cultivated crop expressing said mitigating genetic trait is less fit than an undesirable uncultivated interbreeding species related to the cultivated crop not expressing said mitigating genetic trait, thereby obtaining a cultivated crop capable of mitigating the effects of introgression of the at least one genetically engineered, commercially desirable genetic trait of the cultivated crop to the undesirable, uncultivated interbreeding species related thereto.
A genetic construct for mitigating the effects of introgression of a genetically engineered commercially desirable genetic trait of a cultivated crop to an undesirable, interbreeding species related to the cultivated crop, the genetic construct comprising a first polynucleotide encoding at least one commercially desirable genetic trait and a second polynucleotide encoding at least one mitigating genetic trait, wherein said at least one mitigating genetic trait is selected such that an undesirable, interbreeding species related to the cultivated crop expressing said at least one mitigating genetic trait is less fit than an undesirable, interbreeding species related to the cultivated crop not expressing said at least one mitigating genetic trait and wherein expression of said commercially desirable and said at least one mitigating genetic trait is genetically linked.
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