Patent ID: 7960616

Claim:
An isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a glyphosate tolerance EPSP synthase enzyme, wherein said nucleic acid molecule is selected from the group consisting of: a) a nucleotide sequence encoding a variant of SEQ ID NO:2, wherein said variant comprises one or more of: i) a cysteine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 75 of SEQ ID NO:2; ii) an aspartic acid residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 76 of SEQ ID NO:2; iii) an asparagine, alanine, glutamine, or threonine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 77 of SEQ ID NO:2; iv) a serine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 78 of SEQ ID NO:2; v) a serine or glycine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 81 of SEQ ID NO:2; vi) a valine, threonine, leucine, or phenylalanine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 82 of SEQ ID NO:2; vii) an alanine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 86 of SEQ ID NO:2; viii) a glycine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 87 of SEQ ID NO:2; ix) a phenylalanine, valine, leucine, or histidine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 88 of SEQ ID NO:2; x) a serine, glutamine, or threonine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 95 of SEQ ID NO:2; xi) a valine, serine, arginine, glutamine, glutamic acid, or threonine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 206 of SEQ ID NO:2; and xii) a lysine, glutamine, arginine, serine, or threonine residue at the position corresponding to amino acid position 215 of SEQ ID NO:2.