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US 8,796,506 B2Granted
Transgenic sugar beet plants
AssigneeSyngenta Participations AG
InventorsJohannes Jacobus Ludgerus Gielen, Thomas Craft, Pierre Pin
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Abstract
The invention relates to transgenic sugar beet plants having a phenotype of delayed bolting. The invention further relates to polynucleotides that are closely linked to the bolting gene or B gene within the sugar beet genome and can be used for the discrimination between the annual and biennial genotype or between different haplotypes within plant groupings of sugar beet plants exhibiting a biennial genotype.
Claims6
An expression cassette comprising a chimeric gene comprising the nucleic acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO:
- 54 that is operably linked to a heterologous regulatory element which is functional in plants.
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