Patent ID: 8247652

Claim:
A population of transgenic plants that consists of a plurality of transgenic plants of which each plant has integrated into its genome one or more than one copy of one codogenic gene segment of a cellular donor organism that encodes one protein of the cellular donor organism, but has integrated no other codogenic gene segment encoding another protein of the cellular donor organism, wherein the integrated codogenic gene segment comprises a start codon and a stop codon that define an open reading frame encoding the protein; wherein the integrated codogenic gene segment is operably linked to a regulatory sequence so that the open reading frame is transcribed and translated; wherein said plurality of transgenic plants as a whole comprises at least 50% of all codogenic gene segments that encode a protein of the cellular donor organism; and wherein the plurality of transgenic plants is obtained by a) providing a known codogenic gene segment that encodes one protein of a cellular donor organism and integrating one or more than one copy of the codogenic gene segment into the genome of a plant; b) providing another known codogenic gene segment that encodes another protein of the cellular donor organism and integrating one or more than one copy of the other codogenic gene segment into the genome of another plant; c) repeating step b) so that the resulting plurality of transgenic plants as a whole comprises at least 50% of all codogenic gene segments that encode a protein of the cellular donor organism.