Patent and application assigned to Plant Genetic Systems (now Bayer Crop Science)
The invention disclosed in the United States patent assigned to
Plant Genetic Systems uses an embryogenic callus of a cereal,
any cereal, as starting material for transformation with
Agrobacterium. The tissue is either wounded or treated with an enzyme
prior to the transformation process.
Plant Genetic Systems is now part of Bayer Crop
Science, for which a recent contact address from their website on
licensing is annette.josten@bayercropscience.com.
Specific Patent Data
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Patent Number
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Title, Independent Claims and Summary of Claims
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Assignee
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US
6074877
- Earliest priority - 23 November 1990
- Filed - 28 May 1998
- Granted - 13 June 2000
- Expected expiry - 27 May 2018
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Title - Process for transforming monocotyledonous plants
| Claim 1
A process for the stable integration of a DNA, comprising a gene that is
functional in a cell of a cereal plant, wherein said DNA is integrated into the
nuclear genome of said cereal plant, said process comprising the steps of:
A) providing a compact embryogenic callus of said cereal plant;
B)
wounding said compact embryogenic callus or treating said compact embryogenic
callus with a cell wall degrading enzyme for a period of time so as not to cause
a complete disruption of tissues, and transferring said DNA into the nuclear
genome of a cell in said compact embryogenic callus by means of
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to generate a transformed cell;
and
C) regenerating a transformed cereal plant from said transformed cell.
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The United States patent 6074877 claims
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Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of an embryogenic callus of a
cereal, which is either wounded or treated with an enzyme that degrades cell
walls;
- introduction and stable integration of a gene into the nuclear genome of the
callus cell;
- regeneration of a transformed plant.
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Plant Genetic Systems
(now Bayer Crop Science)
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EP
955371 A2
- Earliest priority - 23 November 1990
- Filed - 21 November 1991
- Granted as EP 955371 (see below)
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Title - Process for transforming
monocotyledonous plants
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A method for the stable integration of a DNA comprising a gene that is
functional in a cell of a cereal plant, into the nuclear genome of a cereal
plant, said method comprising:
A) providing a compact embryogenic callus of a corn plant;
B) wounding
and/or degrading said compact embryogenic callus and transferring said DNA in
the nuclear genome of a cell in said compact embryogenic callus by means of
electroporation, bombardment with DNA-coated microprojectiles or
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to generate a transformed cell;
and optionally
C) regenerating a transformed cereal plant from said
transformed cell.
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| Claim 18
The use of compact embryogenic callus of a cereal plant as starting material
for transferring a DNA comprising a gene that is functional in a cell of a
cereal plant, by means of electroporation, bombardment with DNA-coated
microprojectiles or Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, into the
nuclear genome of said cereal plant.
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The patent application EP 955371 A2 additionally recites the
use of electroporation and microbombardment for the transformation of an
embryogenic callus of a cereal or corn. The claims submitted in the EP
application include:
- the use of an embryogenic callus of a cereal as starting tissue for
transformation;
- transformation of the tissue by either electroporation, microbombardment or
Agrobacterium infection;
- the insertion of a functional gene into the genome of the transformed
cereal; and
- the transformation of an embryogenic callus of corn.
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EP
955371 B1
- Earliest priority - 23 November 1990
- Filed - 21 November 1991
- Granted - February 22 2006
- Expected expiry - 20 November 2011
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Title - Process for transforming
monocotyledonous plants
Claim 1
A method for the stable integration of a DNA comprising a gene that is
functional in a cell of a cereal plant, into the nuclear genome of a cereal
plant, said method comprising:
a) providing a compact embryogenic callus of a cereal plant;
b) wounding
and/or degrading said compact embryogenic callus and transferring said DNA in
the nuclear genome of a cell in said compact embryogenic callus by means of
electroporation, bombardment with DNA-coated microprojectiles or
Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to generate a transformed cell;
and optionally
c) regenerating a transformed cereal plant from said
transformed cell.
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Claim 18
The use of compact embryogenic callus of a cereal plant as starting material
for transferring a DNA comprising a gene that is functional in a cell of a
cereal plant, by means of electroporation, bombardment with DNA-coated
microprojectiles or Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, into the
nuclear genome of said cereal plant.
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Granted EP 955371 recites a method of cereal transformation
that is not limited to Agrobacterium-mediated DNA
transfer, but also includes electroporation and bombardment with DNA-coated
microprojectiles.
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| Remarks |
- The European application was assigned to Aventis CropScience
N.V. on 7 June 2000. This may now be assigned to Bayer Crop
Science.
- A corresponding patent application in Canada (CA 2096843) is still pending.
- A corresponding patent in Japan (JP 3234598) has been granted with cereals
limited to those of corn, wheat and rice.
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