Patent ID: 9562081
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: A61P,C07K,C12N

Claim:
1. A method of inhibiting the expression or activity of a SWEET transporter in a plant cell, the method comprising transforming the plant cell with an expression vector, the expression vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence coding for one or more polynucleotides that form a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to inhibit a nucleic acid sequence in the plant cell coding for the SWEET 12 transporter, wherein said dsRNA reduces sugar efflux out of the plant cell, wherein the plant cell is from or in soybean, tomato, alfalfa, potato, pea, wheat or maize, wherein the reduction in efflux of sugar out of the plant cell increases pathogen resistance of the plant cell to Golovinomyces cichoracearum.