Re: Genetic Engineering Aluminum Tolerant Plants / Sorghum Aluminum Tolerance Gene, SBMATE / United States Patent 7,582,809,B2 |
1 September 2009 |Inventor Leon Kochian Jiping Liu Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes Robert Eugene Schaffert Vera Maria Carvalho Alves Patricia Klein |
Original Assignee Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria EMBRAPA US Department of Agriculture
This invention relates to a major aluminum tolerance gene, SbMATE (for Sorghum bicolor member of the multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporter family), that is responsible for the AltSB locus (for aluminum tolerance in Sorghum bicolor), cloned from sorghum along with its native promoter and regulatory regions, a construct containing the gene and a constitutive promoter, a vector containing the construct, and a method of transforming a plant utilizing the construct and vector, and plants, including staple crop plants, transformed with the gene construct having increased tolerance to aluminum toxicity.