Granted Patent
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US 12,421,522 · App. 18/530,946 · Granted Sep 23, 2025
Modulation of transgene expression in plants
Inventors:
Andrew J. Bowling (Zionsville, IN); Marcelo Ariel German (Lake Oswego, OR); Todd P. Glancy (Fairmount, IN); Sandeep Kumar (Johnston, IA); Heather E. Pence (Whitestown, IN); Andrew E. Robinson (Calvert City, KY); Shreedharan Sriram (Waukee, IA); Pohao Wang (Cary, NC); Carla N. Yerkes (Crawfordsville, IN)
Assignee:
CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE, LLC
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Abstract
This disclosure concerns the use of endogenous plant RNAi machinery to preferentially or specifically reduce transgene expression. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns specific reduction of transgene expression in seed tissues of a dicot plant.
Claims (16)
1. A method to reduce expression of a first aad-12 transgene conferring resistance to a 2,4-D herbicide within a soybean plant, the method comprising:
(a) introducing into the soybean plant a small RNA target site polynucleotide operably linked to an expression cassette comprising a second transgene, thereby selectively reducing the expression of the first transgene within seed-coat specific plant tissue of the soybean plant and conferring expression of the first transgene in soybean plant tissues comprising above ground tissues of the soybean plant;
(b) obtaining the soybean plant comprising reduced expression of the first transgene within seed-coat specific plant tissues;
(c) producing a seed from the soybean plant;
(d) growing a progeny soybean plant from the seed; and
(e) applying a 2,4-D herbicide to the progeny soybean plant, wherein the above ground tissues of the progeny soybean plant are tolerant to the application of the 2,4-D herbicide.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first transgene is heterologous to the plant.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the small RNA molecule that binds to the small RNA target site is an endogenous small RNA of the plant.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the small RNA molecule is SEQ ID NO:3.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the small RNA target site is SEQ ID NO:4.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first transgene is operably linked to a non-constitutive promoter.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first transgene is operably linked to a tissue-specific promoter.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first transgene is operably linked to a constitutive promoter.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first transgene comprises a gene expression cassette.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first gene expression cassette comprises SEQ ID NO:7.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the progeny soybean plant is grown in a field as a crop plant.
Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST
Recorded Feb 26, 2024
From: KUMAR, SANDEEP; GERMAN, MARCELO ARIEL; WANG, POHAO; GLANCY, TODD P.; SRIRAM, SHREEDHARAN; YERKES, CARLA N.; BOWLING, ANDREW J.; PENCE, HEATHER; ROBINSON, ANDREW E.
To: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
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CHANGE OF NAME
Recorded Feb 26, 2024
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Continuity (5)
Provisional Application
62406560
· Oct 11, 2016
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