Abstract: An inbred sunflower line, designated CN1703, the plants and seeds of the inbred sunflower line CN1703, methods for producing a sunflower plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred sunflower line CN1703 with itself or with another sunflower plant, and hybrid sunflower seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line CN1703 with another sunflower line or plant and to methods for producing a sunflower plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic sunflower plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred sunflower lines derived from inbred sunflower line CN1703, to methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from inbred sunflower line CN1703 and to the inbred sunflower lines derived by the use of those methods.

Abstract: This invention encompasses the identification and isolation of genes that confer disease control properties in plants, as well as plants comprising such genes. These genes are derived from the following sources: Nicotiana benthamiana, Oryzae sativa (var. Indica IR7), Papaver rhoeas, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Trichoderma harzianum (Rifai 1295-22). The control conferred is against the one or more of the following phytopathogens: Aspergillus flavus, Cercospora zeae-maydis, Fusarium monilforme, Fusarium graminearum, Helminthosporium maydis, Phoma lingam, Phomopsis helianthi, Phytopthera infestans, Pyricularia oryzae, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Ustilago maydis, and Verticillium dahliae. Further, this invention encompasses other homologous and heterologous sequences with a high degree of functional similarity.