Title:
PLANT SELF NITROGEN FIXATION BY MIMICKING PROKARYOTIC PATHWAYS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2014/088943
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method for engineering a transgenic plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria, such as cyanobacteria, or that of other bacteria, by targeting to or expressing in plant plastids bacterial nif (nitrogen fixation) genes is provided. A method for reducing the overall concentration of nitrogen in soil is provided using a plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria. Progeny of a plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria is also provided.
Inventors:
ZALTSMAN ADI (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2013/072598
Publication Date:
October 16, 2014
Filing Date:
December 02, 2013
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ZALTSMAN ADI (US)
International Classes:
A01H5/00; C12N15/82
Foreign References:
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Other References:
DATABASE GENBANK [online] 18 April 2005 (2005-04-18), BOSL ET AL.: "Frankia sp. nif-H gene for nitrogenase reductase", XP055256777, accession no. NCBI Database accession no. X73983.1
DATABASE GENBANK [online] 13 January 2000 (2000-01-13), COLON-LOPEZ ET AL.: "Cyanothece ATCC51142 dinitrogenase alpha-subunit (nifD) gene", XP055256782, accession no. NCBI Database accession no. AF003337.1
DATABASE GENBANK [online] 13 January 2000 (2000-01-13), "Cyanothece ATCC51142 dinitrogenase beta-subunit (nifK) gene", XP055256787, accession no. NCBI Database accession no. AF003338.1
DATABASE GENBANK [online] 13 January 2000 (2000-01-13), COLON-LOPEZ ET AL.: "Cyanothece ATCC51142 dinitrogenase alpha-subunit (nifD) gene", XP055256782, accession no. NCBI Database accession no. AF003337.1
DATABASE GENBANK [online] 13 January 2000 (2000-01-13), "Cyanothece ATCC51142 dinitrogenase beta-subunit (nifK) gene", XP055256787, accession no. NCBI Database accession no. AF003338.1
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
SORELL, Peter, B. et al. (Lenna & Schmidt LLP,99 Smithtown Bypass,2nd Floor Suit, Hauppauge NY, US)
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