Patent ID: 11932866
Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGAA
Field: Biotechnology (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  Y | IPC C

Claim 0:
1. A Zea mays plant having pathogen resistance, wherein pathogen resistance is conferred or increased by downregulation of a nucleotide sequence encoding an endogenous C-terminal domain phosphatase-like 3 (CPL3) protein, wherein the downregulation is achieved by one or more silencing construct(s) directed to all endogenous nucleotide sequences encoding the CPL3 protein; wherein the downregulation is an incomplete downregulation of the CPL3 transcript and results in an increased pathogen resistance in the plant as compared to a Zea mays plant that do not comprise the one or more silencing constructs, and wherein the nucleotide sequence encoding the CPL3 protein is selected from the group consisting of:
(a) the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9;
(b) a nucleotide sequence having at least 95% identity to the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9;
(c) a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 19; and
(d) a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence having at least 95% identity to the sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 19.