US 7,525,014 B2
	Disease-resistant plants and method of constructing the same
Yoshimitsu Takakura, Shizuoka (Japan); Yasuhiro Inoue, Ibaraki (Japan); Shigeru Kuwata, Kanagawa (Japan); Fumiki Tsutsumi, Kanagawa (Japan); and Yuji Ishida, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/363,832 PCT Filed Sep. 07, 2001, PCT No. PCT/JP01/07785 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 11, 2003, PCT Pub. No. WO02/19803, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 14, 2002.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-271413 (JP), filed on Sep. 07, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2004/0073970 A1, Apr. 15, 2004
Int. Cl. C12N 15/09 (2006.01); C12N 15/31 (2006.01); C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01H 5/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 800—279  [800/288; 800/298; 800/278; 435/468; 435/419; 435/320.1; 536/23.7]

8 Claims

1. A transgenic, disease-resistant plant which has been transformed with an expression cassette comprising: a constitutive promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid that encodes a harpin; wherein the transgenic plant expresses the harpin in an amount effective for inducing a defense reaction, and wherein the harpin has the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.