Patent ID: 11879128
Assignee: CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS (CSIC)—DELEGACIÓN ANDALUCÍA
Field: Biotechnology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  A | IPC A  C

Claim 18:
19. A method for producing a food composition with a reduced gliadin and/or gluten content and/or reduced immunotoxicity, the method comprising producing a genetically altered plant, characterised in that said plant has reduced expression and/or content of at least one of alpha-, gamma- and/or omega gliadins, reduced total gliadin content, reduced gluten content, a reduced gliadin to glutenin ratio and/or increased expression and/or content of glutenins, wherein said plant is obtained by transfecting at least one plant cell with at least one nucleic acid construct of claim 1 or at least one sgRNA molecule of claim 6 in the seeds of said plant, producing seeds from said plant in which at least one of alpha-, gamma- and/or omega gliadins is silenced or reduced in expression and/or content and preparing a food composition from said seeds.