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EP 1014778 A4 20040929 - METHODS FOR PRODUCING APOMICTIC PLANTS

Title (en)

METHODS FOR PRODUCING APOMICTIC PLANTS

Title (de)

VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON APOMIKTISCHEN PFLANZEN

Title (fr)

PROCEDES SERVANT A PRODUIRE DES PLANTES APOMICTIQUES

Publication

EP 1014778 A4 20040929 (EN)

Application

EP 98903911 A 19980205

Priority

  • US 9802034 W 19980205
  • US 3721197 P 19970205

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO9833374A1] Methods are provided for producing apomictic plants from sexual plants divergent with respect to responses to different photoperiods and schedules of megaspore and gametophyte development. A preferred system is to identify divergent lines from within a species or closely related group of species, accentuate the divergence by breeding where necessary, and produce artificial amphiploids that contain genomes from the apposing divergent lines. Apomixis results from the asynchronous expression of female developmental programs induced by combining the reproductively divergent lines. The procedures for manipulating the expression of apomixis described herein permit the development of true-breeding hybrids of various cultivated crops.

IPC 1-7

A01H 1/00; A01H 1/02; A01H 1/04; A01H 1/08; A01G 7/00

IPC 8 full level

A01H 1/00 (2006.01); A01H 1/04 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

A01H 1/022 (2021.01 - EP US); A01H 1/04 (2013.01 - EP US)

Citation (search report)

  • [X] BELOUSOVA N I: "HYBRIDIZATION OF MAIZE WITH TRIPSACUM IN RELATION TO THE PROBLEM OF EXPERIMENTAL INDUCTION OF APOMIXIS IN MAIZE", APOMIXIS AND BREEDING, XX, XX, 1970, pages 199 - 204, XP002925610
  • [X] SARYCHEV YU F: "A NEW METHOD FOR OBTAINING INDUCED DIPLOID APOMIXIS IN NICOTIANA-TABACUM", GENETIKA, vol. 22, no. 7, 1986, pages 1138 - 1142, XP008033541, ISSN: 0016-6758
  • [A] JEFFERSON R A ET AL: "THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF APOMIXIS: A MOLECULAR GENETICS APPROACH", IMPACT OF PLANT MOLECULAR GENETICS, XX, XX, 1996, pages 87 - 101, XP000749968
  • [A] YUDIN B F ET AL: "TOWARDS REGULAR APOMIXIS IN MAIZE, ACHIEVED BY EXPERIMENT", BIOSIS/CAS SELECTS. GENETIC MANIPULATION IN PLANTS, BIOSCIENCES INFORMATION SERVICE, PHILADELPHIA, PA, US, vol. 5, no. 2, 1989, pages 36 - 40, XP001096241, ISSN: 0749-7571
  • [A] KOLTUNOW A M: "APOMIXIS: EMBRYO SACS AND EMBRYOS FORMED WITHOUT MEIOSIS OR FERTILIZATION IN OVULES", PLANT CELL, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGISTS, ROCKVILLE, MD, US, vol. 5, 1 October 1993 (1993-10-01), pages 1425 - 1437, XP002040861, ISSN: 1040-4651
  • [XP] CARMAN JOHN G: "Asynchronous expression of duplicate genes in angiosperms may cause apomixis, bispory, tetraspory, and polyembryony", BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, vol. 61, no. 1, 1997, pages 51 - 94, XP002290847, ISSN: 0024-4066
  • See references of WO 9833374A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 9833374 A1 19980806; AU 6055498 A 19980825; AU 732743 B2 20010426; AU 732743 C 20020808; CA 2280145 A1 19980806; CN 1206903 C 20050622; CN 1267187 A 20000920; EA 004253 B1 20040226; EA 199900712 A1 20000228; EP 1014778 A1 20000705; EP 1014778 A4 20040929; IL 131196 A0 20010128; JP 2002510964 A 20020409; NZ 337683 A 20011026

DOCDB simple family (application)

US 9802034 W 19980205; AU 6055498 A 19980205; CA 2280145 A 19980205; CN 98803377 A 19980205; EA 199900712 A 19980205; EP 98903911 A 19980205; IL 13119698 A 19980205; JP 53320098 A 19980205; NZ 33768399 A 19990205