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Rice - Specific Patent Information - part 2

Patent Number

Title, Independent Claims and Summary of Claims

Assignee

US 6215051

  • Earliest priority - 4 November 1992
  • Filed - 4 May 1998
  • Granted - 10 April 2001
  • Expected expiry - 3 May 2018

Title - Aarobacterium-mediated method for transforming rice
(note that Agrobacterium has the incorrect spelling, as shown above, on the patent)

Claim 1

A method for the production of a transgenic plant of rice crop comprising the steps:

A) infecting an immature embryo of rice crop with the genus Agrobacterium for transformation;
B) co-culturing the infected embryo with a dicot suspension culture during the step of transformation;
C) allowing the transformed embryo in step (B) to grow into a callus in a selective medium comprising a sufficient amount of a plant growth hormone for the growth of rice crop; and
D) allowing the cultured callus to regenerate root and shoot in a regeneration medium comprising a pre-determined amount of nutrients for the growth of rice crop.

Claim 8

A method for the production of a transgenic rice plant comprising the steps of:

A) transforming an immature rice embryo with a gene encoding a desired gene product by culturing the embryo in a dicot suspension culture with bacteria from the genus Agrobacterium, said bacteria comprising said gene;
B) growing the transformed embryo from step (A) into a callus in a selective medium comprising a rice plant growth hormone; and
C) regenerating root and shoot from said cultured callus in a regeneration medium comprising nutrients for the growth of rice crop.

Method for the production of transgenic rice plants by co-culturing an immature rice embryo and Agrobacterium with a dicot suspension culture. The transformed embryo grows into a callus that in turn regenerates roots and shoots.

National Science Council of R.O.C.

Remarks

Related Japanese applications and United States patents are not directed to transformation of rice with Agrobacterium. They refer to a gene expression system with a promoter region from the alpha amylase genes.

WO 2001/12828 A1

  • Earliest priority - 18 August 1999
  • Filed - 17 August 2000
  • OPI - 22 February 2001

Title - Methods and Apparatus for transformation of Monocotyledenous plants using Agrobacterium in combination with vacuum filtration

Claim 1 - See below *

Claim 20

An in planta method of transforming a rice plant comprising: A) contacting at least one panicle of the rice plant with a solution or suspension comprising at least one Agrobacterium clone; and
B) subjecting the rice plant to a vacuum effective to cause entry of the Agrobacterium clone into at least one flower of the panicle.

Claim 38

An in planta method of producing a transgenic rice plant, comprising: A) contacting at least one panicle of a first rice plant with a solution comprising at least one Agrobacterium clone wherein the Agrobacterium clone comprises at least one heterologous gene;
B) subjecting the first rice plant to a vacuum effective to cause entry of the Agrobacterium clone into at least one flower of the panicle;
C) cultivating the first rice plant to maturity; and
D) collecting seeds of the first rice plant expressing the heterologous gene.

Claim 40 - See below *

An in planta method for transforming rice panicles by contacting the panicle with Agrobacterium in a suspension containing a heterologous gene and subjecting the plant to vacuum so Agrobacterium enters the plant part. After the transformation the plant is cultivated into maturity and seeds express the heterologous gene.

* Independent claims 1 and 40 recite use of vacuum infiltration to transform monocotyledonous plants, and are introduced in the General Monocot Transformation Methods section.

Paradigm Genetics

Remarks

National phase entry of WO 01/12828 in Australia (AU 67807/00 A) has lapsed.

WO 02/057407 A2

  • Earliest priority - 17 January 2001
  • Filed - 14 January 2002
  • OPI - 25 July 2002

Title - Novel Method for Transgenic Plants by Transformation and Regeneration of Indica Rice Plant Shoot Tips

Claim 1

A novel method of transforming excised shoot tip tissue of the Indica rice cultivars by using the Agrobacterium method.

A method of transformation of Indica rice using excised shoot tip tissue as a target for Agrobacterium.

Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pty. Ltd.

Remarks

  1. related application in India IN 2001CH00047
  2. National phase entry of WO 02/57407 in Europe (EP 1444339) is still pending.

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