Patent ID: 6262338
Filing Date: 2001-07-17
Classification: C07K,C12N,C12Y

Abstract:
An isolated and purified DNA fragment comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of:(i) the nucleotide sequence:ATCTCGTTCA AGTCGGCGCT CTGGTTGTGG ATGACAGAGC 40 AGAAACCAAA ACCTTCTTGC CACAACGTCA TGGTTGGGAA 80 TTACGTGCCA ACAGCATCTG ATAGAGCAGC AAATAGAACC 120 TTAGGGTTTG GGTTGGTTAC GAACATCATC AACGGCGGCC 160 TGGACTGCGG 170which has been designated SEQ ID NO: 1; or(ii) a hybridizing nucleotide sequence that hybridizes to the nucleotide sequence in (i) under stringent conditions in a plaque hybridization assay of genomic Arachis hypogaea DNA using the nucleotide sequence in (i) as a probe, expression of said hybridizing nucleotide sequence being inducible by a pathogen, and said hybridizing nucleotide sequence, when introduced into and expressed in a plant, conferring on said plant an increased resistance to a pest as compared to an untransformed plant of the same plant species exposed to the same pest under the same conditions, said increased resistance to said pest being a result of the expression of said hybridizing nucleotide sequence.