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AssigneeDow AgroSciences LLC
InventorsThomas Hoffman, Yunxing Cory Cui, Malcolm Obourn, Dawn Marle Parkhurst, Barry Wiggins, Michael Vercauteren, Terence Anthony Walsh
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This invention is related to methods for improving plant height and/or yield of crop plants that are resistant to herbicide 2,4-D by treating the plants with 2,4-D at application rates which are not harmful to the plants. In particular, provided is a method using 2,4-D application to increase yield of crop plants that express an AAD-12 gene for 2,4-D resistance. Soybeans are a preferred crop for use according to the subject invention.
A method of improving yield of 2,4-D resistant soybean plants, relative to untreated 2,4-D resistant untreated plants, comprising treating the soybean plants with a stimulating amount of a herbicide comprising an aryloxyalkanoate moiety, wherein the 2,4-D resistant plants are transgenic plants transformed with an aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase (AAD), wherein the aryloxyalkanoate dioxygenase (AAD) is AAD-12.
The use of 2,4-D in the manufacture of transgenic plants with 2,4-D resistance with increased yield as compared to its non-transgenic parent plants.
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