Patents Examined by Ousana Zaghmout
  • Plants containing the gdhA gene and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 6329573
    Abstract: Plant nitrogen metabolism in corn and tobacco has been altered by transformation with a highly active assimilatory glutamate dehydrogenase gene. Plants containing the gdhA gene are resistant to phosphinothricin herbicides (PPT) which can include glufosinate herbicides. Additionally, these transformed plants evidence higher levels of tolerance to PPT when combined with another PPT resistant gene. This invention also includes the method of improving plant growth in a field of crops encoding for GDH due to a gdhA transgene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University
    Inventors: David A. Lightfoot, Lynn M. Long, Maria E. Vidal Lightfoot