Materials and method for increasing a plant's resistance to stress
AssigneeIowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsLing Li, Eve Syrkin Wurtele
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Abstract
Method of increasing resistance to a pathogen or a pest in a plant comprising introducing into the plant and expressing therein a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a Qua-Quine Starch (QQS) polypeptide; method of producing a plant with increased resistance to a pathogen or a pest comprising crossing a plant obtained in accordance with the above method with a second plant to produce progeny plants and selecting progeny plants with increased resistance to a pathogen or a pest; a plant with increased resistance to a pathogen or a pest; a seed of the plant; a hybrid of the plant; and a seed of the hybrid plant.
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A method of increasing resistance to a pathogen or a pest in a plant, which comprises introducing into the plant, the wild-type of which does not comprise and express Qua-Quine Starch (QQS), and expressing therein a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a QQS polypeptide having the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 2, wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a promoter, whereupon the resistance to the pathogen or the pest is increased in the plant.
A plant, the wild-type of which does not comprise and express QQS and into which a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a QQS polypeptide having the amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 2 has been introduced and expressed therein, wherein the nucleotide sequence is operably linked to a promoter, and wherein the plant has increased resistance to a pathogen or a pest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.