Abstract: The invention provides isolated plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root specific and/or induced by plant parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots and are particularly useful for controlling transcription of nucleic acids encoding agents that disrupt formation or maintenance of parasitic nematode feeding sites in plants.

Abstract: The invention provides isolated promoter polynucleotides that are root-specific and/or induced by plant parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots and are particularly useful for controlling transcription of nucleic acids encoding agents that disrupt formation or maintenance of parasitic nematode feeding sites in plants.

Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants' roots. The invention also provides expression cassettes including the plant gene promoters and regulatory elements of the invention, transgenic plants containing such expression cassettes, and methods of producing such transgenic plants.

Abstract: The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-preferred and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoter polynucleotides of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.

Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters, and essential promoter elements, which are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.

Abstract: The invention provides transgenic plants that exhibit increased resistance to nematode infection by virtue of overexpression of a gene that encodes trehalase in nematode-induced syncytia. Expression vectors comprising trehalase-encoding polynucleotides and methods of employing such vectors to increase nematode resistance of plants are also provided.

Abstract: The invention provides pEARLI1-like polynucleotides which are capable of conferring increased nematode resistance to a plant. Also provided are inhibitory polynucleotides based on pEARLI1-like genes, which are capable of conferring resistance to necrotrophic fungi to plants. Specifically, the invention relates to transgenic plants, transgenic seeds, and expression vectors based on polynucleotides encoding pEARLI1-like genes, and methods of use thereof.

Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants roots.

Abstract: The invention provides polynucleotides encoding N-terminal truncated forms of sucrose isomerase polypeptides which are capable of conferring increased nematode resistance in a plant. The invention also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with increased nematode resistance, seeds of such transgenic plants, and expression vectors, all of which comprise the polynucleotides of the invention.

Abstract: The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.

Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential parasitic nematode gene, which is a parasitic nematode pas-5 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes.

Abstract: The invention provides promoter polynucleotides that are root-preferred and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoter polynucleotides of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.

Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential parasitic nematode gene selected from the group consisting of a parasitic nematode cytosolic chaperonin gene, a parasitic nematode gene encoding heat shock protein-90, a parasitic nematode gene homologous to the C. elegans Y65B4BR.5a gene, and a parasitic nematode gene homologous to a C. elegans pat-10 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased tolerance to parasitic nematodes.

Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters and regulatory elements that are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plants roots.

Abstract: The invention provides plant gene promoters, and essential promoter elements, which are root-specific and/or induced by parasitic nematodes. The promoters of the invention are useful for controlling expression of nucleic acids of interest in plant roots.

Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential parasitic nematode gene, which is a parasitic nematode pas-5 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased resistance to parasitic nematodes.

Abstract: The present invention concerns double stranded RNA compositions and transgenic plants capable of inhibiting expression of essential genes in parasitic nematodes, and methods associated therewith. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of RNA interference to inhibit expression of a target essential parasitic nematode gene selected from the group consisting of a parasitic nematode cytosolic chaperonin gene, a parasitic nematode gene encoding heat shock protein-90, a parasitic nematode gene homologous to the C. elegans Y65B4BR.5a gene, and a parasitic nematode gene homologous to a C. elegans pat-10 gene, and relates to the generation of plants that have increased tolerance to parasitic nematodes.

Abstract: A method is provided for transforming Brassica plants to express DNA sequences of interest from the plant cell plastid. The method allows the transformation of Brassica plant tissue with heterologous DNA constructs. Such DNA constructs comprise, in the 5? to 3? direction of transcription, a promoter region functional in a plant plastid and a DNA sequence of interest. The invention further provides for Brassica cells in which the plastids contain heterologous DNA constructs.

Abstract: A method is provided for transforming Brassica plants to express DNA sequences of interest from the plant cell plastid. The method allows the transformation of Brassica plant tissue with heterologous DNA constructs. Such DNA constructs comprise, in the 5′ to 3′ direction of transcription, a promoter region functional in a plant plastid and a DNA sequence of interest. The invention further provides for Brassica cells in which the plastids contain heterologous DNA constructs.

Abstract: A method is provided for transforming Brassica plants to express DNA sequences of interest from the plant cell plastid. The method allows the transformation of Brassica plant tissue with heterologous DNA constructs. Such DNA constructs comprise, in the 5′ to 3′ direction of transcription, a promoter region functional in a plant plastid and a DNA sequence of interest. The invention further provides for Brassica cells in which the plastids contain heterologous DNA constructs.