Article: Syngenta obtains United States patent.(Brief Article)

Syngenta Participations AG (Basel, Switzerland) has patented trichothecene-resistant transgenic plants, plant tissues, plant seeds, and plant cells comprising a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a gene product having tricothecene resistance activity that thereby confers trichothecene resistance to the transgenic plants, plant tissues, plant seeds, and plant cells. Trichothecene resistance activity, as used herein, refers to an activity that reduces or inhibits the phytotoxicity of a trichothecene, particularly to a fungus and/or plant. In a particular embodiment, trichothecene resistance activity refers to an activity ...

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