Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drought resistance in plants: UPL4
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Application No.: US14377842Application Date: 2013-02-18
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Publication No.: US10308952B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Anne Deslattes Mays , Marieke Helena Adriana Van Hulten , Shital Anilkumar Dixit , Martin De Vos , Jesse David Munkvold , Matthew Vitabile Dileo
- Applicant: Keygene N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Wageningen
- Assignee: KEYGENE N.V.
- Current Assignee: KEYGENE N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Wageningen
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- International Application: PCT/NL2013/050100 WO 20130218
- International Announcement: WO2013/122471 WO 20130822
- Main IPC: A01H1/06
- IPC: A01H1/06 ; C12N15/82

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a new method for increasing drought resistance of a plant. The method encompasses the impairment of the expression of a gene or genes in said plant. In comparison to a plant not manipulated to impair the expression of said gene(s), the plants display improved drought resistance. Also provided are plants and plant product that can be obtained by the method according to the invention.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160010106A1 DROUGHT RESISTANCE IN PLANTS: UPL4 Public/Granted day:2016-01-14
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