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US 8,771,959 B2Granted
Methods for the production of plants resistant to HPPD herbicides
AssigneeSyngenta Limited
InventorsChristopher John Andrews, Simon Anthony James Warner, Timothy Robert Hawkes
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Abstract
Methods for making transgenic plants that are resistant to HPPD herbicides are presented. Polynucleotides other than those from Pseudomonas fluorescens that encode resistant HPPD enzymes are enclosed for use in the process of making transgenic plants that are tolerant to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides.
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A method for selecting resistant HPPD polynucleotides which comprise a region encoding an HPPD enzyme, comprising:
- (a) obtaining polynucleotides that encode HPPD enzymes capable of forming a complex with an HPPD herbicide;
- (b) measuring the dissociation constant or dissociation rate constant of the complex between the encoded HPPD enzymes and the HPPD herbicide;
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- (c) selecting the HPPD polynucleotides that encode HPPD enzymes that, in water at pH 7.0 and 25° C., have a dissociation constant of said complex (Kd) within the range of 1.0 to 30 nM or a dissociation rate constant within the range of 4×10−5 to 2×10−3s−1.
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