Tobacco Having Altered Amounts Of Environmental Contaminants And Methods For Producing Such Lines
AssigneeReynolds Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPatsy Elizabeth Elliott, Darlene Madeline Lawson
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are genetically modified tobacco plants, and tobacco products derived from such plants, comprising an altered uptake and/or altered levels of at least one environmental contaminant or other non-natural chemical as compared to an unmodified parent tobacco plant from which the modified plant is derived. The alteration in uptake and/or levels may be a reduction, or alternatively an increase, in the uptake and/or levels of the environmental contaminant or other non-natural chemical. These methods and plants are useful for improving tobacco products or in generating tobacco lines that may have environmentally useful properties.
Claims27
A method for producing a modified tobacco plant comprising generating a tobacco plant comprising significantly altered uptake and/or altered levels of environmental contaminant or other non-natural chemicals as compared to an unmodified tobacco plant from which the modified plant is derived.
A modified tobacco plant comprising a significantly altered uptake and/or altered levels of environmental contaminant or other non-natural chemicals as compared to an unmodified tobacco plant from which the modified plant is derived, wherein the genome of the modified tobacco plant comprises a mutation that exhibits a dominant phenotype of resistance to growth in the presence of a selection agent.
A tobacco plant comprising at least one of the 10TN-278-2, 10TN-253-4, 10TN-256-1 or 1-TN-287-4 lines.
A tobacco product comprising a modified tobacco having significantly altered uptake and/or altered levels of an environmental contaminant and/or a non-natural compound as compared to an unmodified tobacco from which the modified tobacco is derived.
A composition comprising tobacco from at least one of the 10TN-278-2, 10TN-253-4, 10TN-256-1 or 1-TN-287-4 lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.