Patent ID: 6198022
Filing Date: 2001-03-06
Classification: A01K,C07K,C12N

Abstract:
A process for the production of transgenic plants resistant to cucumber mosaic virus, said plants belonging to the species Cucumis melo, said process comprising the following steps:i) introduction, via Agrobacterium tumefaciens, of a gene coding for the capsid protein of the cucumber mosaic virus, into explants of plants belonging to the species Cucumis melo, said explants being cotyledons of embryos isolated from seeds, the said cotyledons having germinated for 0 to 4 days;ii) induction of genetically transformed shoot buds from transformed explants obtained in step (i);iii) development of transgenic plantlets from genetically transformed shoot buds obtained in step (ii);iv) development of transgenic plants from the transgenic plantlets obtained in step (iii).