Monocot having dicot wound-inducible promoter
AssigneeCornell Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsRay Wu, David McElroy, Deping Xu
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Abstract
The present invention describes the activity of a dicot wound inducible promoter in a monocot plant, the use of a monocot intron to enhance the activity of a dicot promoter in a transgenic monocot, and genetic constructs to introduce an exogenous genetic trait into a monocot plant using a wound inducible dicot promoter system.
Claims4
A wound inducible promoter construct for use in monocotyledonous plants consisting essentially of, in 5' to 3' order, a potato proteinase inhibitor II gene promoter and a 5' intron of rice actin 1 gene promoter.
A nucleic acid construct comprising:
- a wound inducible promoter construct consisting essentially of, in 5' to 3' order, a potato proteinase inhibitor II gene promoter and a 5' intron of rice actin 1 gene promoter;
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- a foreign gene of interest under regulatory control of said wound inducible promoter construct.
A monocotyledonous plant comprising:
- a wound inducible promoter construct consisting essentially of, in 5' to 3' order, a potato proteinase inhibitor II gene promoter and a 5' intron of rice actin 1 gene promoter;
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- a foreign gene of interest under regulatory control of said wound inducible promoter construct.
A rice plant comprising:
- a wound inducible promoter construct consisting essentially of, in 5' to 3' order, a potato proteinase inhibitor II gene promoter and a 5' intron of rice actin 1 gene promoter;
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- a foreign gene of interest under regulatory control of said wound inducible promoter construct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.