Jinsong J Xing

US Patent:

62255282, May 1, 2001

Filed:

Aug 28, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/143567

Inventors:

Chunlin Wang - Piscataway NJ
Jinsong Xing - New Brunswick NJ

Assignee:

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick NJ

International Classification:

C12N 1582

US Classification:

800279

Abstract:

The present invention provides pathogen-resistant transgenic plants and methods of making the plants. The transgenic plants display enhanced resistance to a variety of fungal, bacterial and viral plant pathogens due to expression of a gene that increases the unsaturated fatty acid content of the plant's cells, as compared with an equivalent, but non-transformed plant. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a plant expressing a heterologous. DELTA. -9 desaturase gene from yeast, which particularly increases cytosolic quantities of 16:1, 16:2 and 18:1 fatty acids.