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AssigneeMonsanto Company
InventorsRobert Thomas Fraley, Robert Bruce Horsch, Stephen Gary Rogers
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In one aspect the present invention relates to the use of viral promoters in the expression of chimeric genes in plant cells. In another aspect this invention relates to chimeric genes which are capable of being expressed in plant cells, which utilize promoter regions derived from viruses which are capable of infecting plant cells. One such virus comprises the cauliflower mosaic virux (CaMV). Two different promoter regions have been derived from the CaMV genome and ligated to heterologous coding sequences to form chimeric genes. These chimeric genes have been shown to be expressed in plant cells. This invention also relates to plant cells, plant tissue, and differentiated plants which contain and express the chimeric genes of this invention.
A method for transforming a plant cell which comprises transforming a plant cell with a chimeric DNA construct containing a promoter isolated from cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV), said promoter selected from the group consisting of a CaMV(19S) promoter derived from the CaMV(19S) gene and a CaMV(35S) promoter derived from the CaMV(35S) gene, and a DNA sequence which is heterologous with respect to the promoter;
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