NOVEL MAIZE UBIQUITIN PROMOTERS

• Main Authors: SMITH, Doug A, JAYNE, Susan M, GUPTA, Manju, WRIGHT, Terry R, KUMAR, Sandeep, ALABED, Diaa
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 21.06.2017
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; VINEGAR; WINE

The Zea mays c.v. B73 Ubiquitin-1 (Z. mays c.v. B73 Ubi-1) promoter drives high levels of constitutive transgene expression in plants. Repeated use of the same Z. mays c.v. B73 Ubi-1 promoter in multi-gene constructs may also lead to gene silencing, thereby making transgenic products less efficaciou...