Plants comprising events PP009-401, PP009-415, and PP009-469, compositions, sequences, and methods for detection thereof
The invention provides glyphosate tolerant transgenic turfgrass plants, plant material, and seeds that have a specific transformation event. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the event. The invention also provides sequences for a variant EPSPS gene and a GAO2X gene, cassettes, and plants comprising the variant EPSPS gene and a GAO2X gene.
1. An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 7, SEQ ID NO: 8, SEQ ID NO: 9, the complement of SEQ ID NO: 7, the complement of SEQ ID NO: 8, and the complement of SEQ ID NO: 9.
2. A Kentucky bluegrass plant, cell, plant part, or seed comprising the nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 .
3. The plant part of claim 2 , wherein the plant part is a bulb, tuber, crown, stem, tiller, cuttings, apical meristem, pollen, ovule, flower, shoot, stolon, propagule, runner, corm, rhizome, root, or leaf.
4. The isolated nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 comprising the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7 or the complement of SEQ ID NO: 7.
5. The isolated nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 comprising the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8 or the complement of SEQ ID NO: 8.
6. The isolated nucleic acid molecule of claim 1 comprising the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 9 or the complement of SEQ ID NO: 9.
7. The Kentucky bluegrass plant, cell, plant part, or seed of claim 2 , wherein the plant, cell, plant part, or seed comprises event Pp009-401, Pp009-415, or Pp009-469, wherein representative seed comprising said event has been deposited under ATCC Accession Numbers PTA-120354; PTA-120353, and PTA-120355, respectively.