The invention provides methods for weed control with dicamba and related herbicides. It was found that pre-emergent applications of dicamba at or near planting could be made without significant crop damage or yield loss. The techniques can be combined with the herbicide glyphosate to improve the degree of weed control and permit control of herbicide tolerant weeds.
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1. A method for controlling weed growth in a crop-growing environment comprising:
a) applying a herbicidally effective amount of an auxin-like dicamba herbicide to a crop-growing environment;
b) planting a transgenic seed of a dicotyledonous plant comprising a nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity in soil of the crop-growing environment within 21 days of applying the herbicide; and
c) allowing the seed to germinate into a plant.
53. A method for controlling weed growth in a crop-growing environment comprising:
a) planting a transgenic seed in a field comprising a weed or a seed thereof, wherein the transgenic seed comprises a transgene conferring glyphosate tolerance and a transgene conferring dicamba tolerance;
b) treating the field with a herbicidally effective amount of dicamba, glyphosate, or a mixture thereof, wherein the planting and the treating is done in a single pass through the field; and
c) growing the transgenic seed into a plant.
18. A method for controlling a glyphosate tolerant weed in a field comprising:
a) planting a transgenic seed in a field comprising a glyphosate tolerant weed or a seed thereof, wherein the seed comprises a transgene conferring glyphosate tolerance and a transgene encoding dicamba monooxygenase, the transgene encoding dicamba monooxygenase which displays dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity comprising a nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of (1) a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:6, (2) a nucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:5, and (3) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide with at least 90% sequence identity to the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:6, wherein the polypeptide has dicamba monooxygenase activity;
b) growing the seed into a plant; and
c) treating the field with an amount of an auxin-like dicamba herbicide and glyphosate effective to control weed growth of the glyphosate tolerant weed.
46. A method for increasing the efficiency of use of a herbicide delivery device comprising:
a) obtaining a device that has been used to deliver a first composition comprising an auxin-like dicamba herbicide;
b) delivering a second composition to the field using the device without first completely washing the device so that a herbicide residue comprising the auxin-like dicamba herbicide remains in the device and is delivered with the second composition to the field, wherein the field comprises a transgenic dicotyledonous plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase which displays dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity or is planted with a seed that germinates into said transgenic dicotyledonous plant, and wherein the herbicide residue is present in an amount that does not damage the transgenic dicotyledonous plant but will damage a plant of the same genotype that lacks the nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase which displays dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity.
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This application claims the priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 60/811,276, filed Jun. 6, 2006, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates generally to the field of weed management. More specifically, the invention relates to methods for using auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba for controlling weeds.
2. Description of the Related Art
Weeds cost farmers billions of dollars annually in crop losses and the expense of efforts to keep weeds under control. Weeds also serve as hosts for crop diseases and insect pests. The losses caused by weeds in agricultural production environments include decreases in crop yield, reduced crop quality, increased irrigation costs, increased harvesting costs, decreased land value, injury to livestock, and crop damage from insects and diseases harbored by the weeds. The principal means by which weeds cause these effects are: 1) competing with crop plants for the essentials of growth and development, 2) production of toxic or irritant chemicals that cause human or animal health problem, 3) production of immense quantities of seed or vegetative reproductive parts or both that contaminate agricultural products and perpetuate the species in agricultural lands, and 4) production on agricultural and nonagricultural lands of vast amounts of vegetation that must be disposed of. The damage caused can be significant. For example, it is estimated that between 1972 and 1976 corn yields were reduced by about 10% due to weeds (Chandler, 1981).
Among weeds that serve as hosts for crop pests, for example, pepperweed and tansymustard (Descurainia sp.) maintain large populations of diamondback moths during the late fall, winter, and spring. They are also hosts to the turnip aphid and green peach aphid. Several weed species of the nightshade family (Solanaceae) are hosts to insects that commonly attack eggplant, pepper, potato, and tomato. For example, horsenettle (Solanum carolinense L.) is a host of the Colorado potato beetle, and black nightshade (S. nigrum L.) is a host of the cabbage looper. Morning-glory is an important host of insects attacking sweet potato, especially the highly destructive sweet potato weevil. Ragweed serves as a host for Mansonia mosquitoes, an insect vector for the human diseases encephalitis and rural filariasis.
Some weeds are undesirable in hay, pastures, and range-lands because of the mechanical injury that they inflict on livestock. Woody stems, thorns, and stiff seed awns cause injury to the mouth and digestive tract of livestock; and the hairs and fibers of some plants tend to ball up and obstruct the intestines, especially in horses, causing serious problems. Ingested by milk cows, some weeds such as ragweeds, wild garlic (Allium vineale L.), and mustard, among others, impart a distinctly distasteful odor or flavor to milk and butter. Barbed seed dispersal units may become so entangled in the wool of sheep as to greatly diminish its market value. Parasitic plants, such as dodder (Cuscuta sp.), broomrape (Orobanche sp.), and witchweed, rob their host plants of organic foodstuffs.
Chemical herbicides have provided an effective method of weed control over the years. Herbicides can generally be applied pre-emergence and/or post-emergence. Pre-emergence herbicides are applied in a field before a crop emerges from the soil. Such applications are typically applied to the soil before, at the same time, or soon after planting the crop. Such applications may kill weeds that are growing in the field prior to the emergence of the crop, and may also prevent or reduce germination of weeds that are present in the soil. Post-emergence herbicides are typically used to kill weeds after a crop has emerged in the field. Such applications may kill weeds in the field and prevent or reduce future weed germination. In either case, the herbicides may be applied to the surface of the soil, mixed with the soil, over the top of the plant, or applied by any other method known to those of skill in the art.
One weed control strategy is to apply an herbicide such as dicamba to a field before sowing seeds. However, after applying the herbicide to a field, a farmer has to wait at least several weeks before sowing the field with crop seeds such that the herbicide has killed most of the weeds and has degraded so as not injure the sown crop. For example, plants are especially sensitive to dicamba and it has been recommended that dicamba formulations such as Banvel™ or Sterling™ be applied 30 days prior to planting for controlling weeds. A comprehensive list of weeds that are controlled by dicamba is available (Anonymous, 2007). The herbicide is particularly useful for control of taller weeds and more difficult to control weeds such as purslane, sicklepod, morninglory and wild buckwheat. Dicamba can be used to control weeds not susceptible to other herbicides. Following the application of Clarity™, another formulation of dicamba, a minimum accumulation of one inch of rainfall or overhead irrigation followed by a 14 day waiting period for the 4 to 8 ounce/acre rates or a 28 day waiting period for the 16 ounce/acre rates has been recommend for controlling weeds in a soybean field (see Table 22 in VanGessel and Majek, 2005). Also, the Clarity® label recommends that it be applied at least 15 days prior to sorghum planting. Similarly, for cotton, a waiting period of 21 days is recommended after applying Clarity® or Banvel® to the field, before planting the cotton seeds (Craig et al., 2005, Crop Profile for Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in Tennessee, www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/tncotton.html) and no pre-emergence and post-emergence application are recommended. The waiting period is also dependent on the crop growing environment at any give time, such as the type of soil (soil having organic activity will degrade dicamba faster), moisture content, rainfall, temperature, as well as type of formulation and rate of application.
The herbicide 2,4-D has been recommended for controlling certain weeds in a soybean field such as mustard spp., plantains, marestail, and 2,4-D susceptible annual broadleaf weeds by applying it 7 to 30 days prior to planting, depending on rate and formulation (ester or amine) (see Table 22 in VanGessel and Majek, 2005).
One method that has been successfully used to manage weeds combines herbicide treatments with crops that are tolerant to the herbicides. In this manner, herbicides that would normally injure a crop can be applied before and during growth of the crop without causing damage. Thus, weeds may be effectively controlled and new weed control options are made available to the grower. In recent years, crops tolerant to several herbicides have been developed. For example, crops tolerant to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (Streber and Willmitzer, 1989), bromoxynil (Stalker et al., 1988), glyphosate (Comai et al., 1985) and phosphinothricin (De Block et al., 1987) have been developed.
Recently, a gene for dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) was isolated from Pseudomonas maltophilia (US Patent Application No: 20030135879) which is involved in the conversion of a herbicidal form of the herbicide dicamba (3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid) to a non-toxic 3,6-dichlorosalicylic acid. The inventors reported the transformation of the DMO gene into tobacco and Arabidopsis. The transformed plant tissue was selected on kanamycin and regenerated into a plant. However, herbicide tolerance was not demonstrated or suggested in immature tissues or seedlings or in other plants. Pre-emergence herbicide tolerance to dicamba was not described. Transgenic soybean plants and other plants tolerant to application of dicamba are described in Behrens et al. (2007).
Dicamba is one member of a class of herbicides commonly referred to as “auxin-like” herbicides or “synthetic auxins.” These herbicides mimic or act like the natural plant growth regulators called auxins. Auxin-like herbicides appear to affect cell wall plasticity and nucleic acid metabolism, which can lead to uncontrolled cell division and growth. The injury symptoms caused by auxin-like herbicides include epinastic bending and twisting of stems and petioles, leaf cupping and curling, and abnormal leaf shape and venation.
Dicamba is one of the many auxin-like herbicides that is a low-cost, environmentally-friendly herbicide that has been used as a pre-emergence herbicide (i.e., 30 days prior to planting) in dicots and as a pre- and/or post-emergence herbicide in corn, sorghum, small grains, pasture, hay, rangeland, sugarcane, asparagus, turf, and grass seed crops to effectively control annual and perennial broadleaf weeds and several grassy weeds (Crop Protection Chemicals Reference, 1995). Unfortunately, dicamba can injure many commercial crops including beans, soybeans, cotton, peas, potatoes, sunflowers, tomatoes, tobacco, and fruit trees, ornamental plants and trees, and other broadleaf plants when it comes into contact with them. Soybean and cotton are particularly sensitive to dicamba. Thus, applications of dicamba must generally occur several weeks before planting of sensitive crops to ensure that residual dicamba is sufficiently cleared from the crop environment before crops emerge. For post-emergent weed control in corn, dicamba is the 5th most widely used herbicide for broad leaf weeds. However, although the optimal rate for broad leaf weed control is between 280 to 560 g/h (grams/hectare), the average use rate in corn is 168 g/h as at higher use rates and under certain environmental conditions, dicamba can injure corn.
As noted above, current manufacturer's guidelines typically require at least a 30 day delay between the application of dicamba and the planting of sensitive crops. This inability to apply dicamba close to the time that crops are planted delays sowing time and shortens the growing season, thereby increasing the risk of exposing crops to frost in the fall. The delay also means that the farmers have to go through the field twice; once for planting and once for spraying, thereby increasing fuel and wear-tear costs to the farmers. Improvements over the state of the art that would eliminate the delay would positively impact the quality and quantity of the crop which could result and reduce economic losses to farmers. More effective weed control would also reduce the risk of weeds developing resistance to existing herbicides.
In one aspect, the invention provides a method for controlling weed growth in a field comprising: a) applying a herbicidally effective amount of an auxin-like herbicide to a crop-growing environment; and planting a transgenic seed of a dicotyledonous plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase in soil of the crop-growing environment, wherein the seed germinates within 30 days or less of applying the herbicide and wherein the dicamba monooxygenase comprises at least 70% sequence identity to the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:2; and c) allowing the seed to germinate into a plant. In certain embodiments, the seed germinates within four weeks, three weeks, two weeks, or less than one week after treating the growing environment with the auxin-like herbicide. The treated growing environment may be, for example, a field in which a crop is planted. A population of seeds of a plant tolerant to the auxin-like herbicide may be planted in the field. Treating the environment can be carried out according to known techniques in the art using, for example, commercially available formulations of auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba. The environment includes an area for which control of weeds is desired and in which the seed of a plant tolerant to the auxin-like herbicide can be planted. A weed can be directly contacted with herbicide in the environment and soil in the environment can be contacted with the herbicide, preventing or reducing weed growth in the soil. The step of treating the environment with a herbicide may be carried out before, after, or concurrently with the step of planting the soil with the transgenic seed. The transgenic seed may be planted into soil in the environment, for example, within three weeks before or after treatment, including from between about two weeks, one week and 0 weeks before or after treatment, further including from between about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 days before or after treatment, including concurrently with treatment. In the method, the seed may germinate, for example, from between about 30 days and 0 days after treating the environment, including between about 21, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and about 0 days after treating the environment. The method may further comprise applying one or more additional treatments of an auxin-like herbicide after the seed germinates and/or the plant is growing. In certain embodiments, a second treatment is carried out at a time selected from the group consisting of between about the 1 to 2 leaf and 3 to 4 leaf stages, before flowering, at flowering, after flowering, and at seed formation. In one embodiment, the second treatment comprises applying dicamba and/or a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic compound (2,4-D).
In a method of the invention, the auxin-like herbicide may be selected from the group consisting of a phenoxy carboxylic acid compound, benzoic acid compound, pyridine carboxylic acid compound, quinoline carboxylic acid compound, and benazolinethyl compound. Examples of a phenoxy carboxylic acid compound include 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid. In certain embodiments, a herbicidally effective amount of 2,4-D and/or (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid used is between about 2 g/ha (grams/hectare) to about 5000 g/ha, including about 50 g/ha to about 2500 g/ha, about 60 g/ha to about 2000 g/ha, about 100 g/ha to about 2000 g/ha, about 75 g/ha to about 1000 g/ha, about 100 g/ha to about 500 g/ha, and from about 100 g/ha to about 280 g/ha. In one embodiment found to function particularly well with the invention, dicamba is used as the herbicide. In certain embodiments, a herbicidally effective amount of dicamba used may be from about 2.5 g/ha to about 10,080 g/ha, including about 2.5 g/ha to about 5,040 g/ha, about 5 g/ha to about 2,020 g/ha, about 10 g/a to about 820 g/h and about 50 g/ha to about 1,000 g/ha, about 100 g/ha to about 800 g/ha and about 250 g/ha to about 800 g/ha.
In a method of the invention a plant may be used exhibiting tolerance to auxin-like herbicides including dicamba. Such a plant may comprise a nucleic acid encoding a dicamba monooxygenase. In one embodiment, the plant is defined as comprising a nucleic acid encoding a dicamba monooxygenase that has at least 70% identity to a polypeptide sequence of any one or more of SEQ ID NOs:2, 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12, including at least about 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 97%, 98%, 99% and greater sequence identity to these sequences. Polypeptide or polynucleotide comparisons may be carried out and identity determined as is known in the art, for example, using MEGAlign (DNAStar, Inc., 1228 S. Park St., Madison, Wis. 53715) with default parameters. Such software matches similar sequences by assigning degrees of similarity or identity.
The methods of the invention may be used in connection with plants that exhibit susceptibility to auxin-like herbicides such as dicotyledonous (dicot) plants. In certain embodiments, a dicotyledonous plant is used selected from the group consisting of alfalfa, beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, cotton, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, melon, pea, pepper, pumpkin, radish, rapeseed, spinach, soybean, squash, tomato, and watermelon. In some embodiments, the dicot is soybean, cotton, or canola.
In another aspect, the invention provides a method for controlling a weed in a field comprising: a) planting a transgenic seed in a field, wherein the seed comprises transgenes conferring tolerance to an auxin-like herbicide and a second herbicide; b) growing the seed into a plant; and c) treating the field with an amount of the auxin-like herbicide and the second herbicide in amounts effective to control weed growth. In some embodiments, the second herbicide may be glufosinate (De Block et al., 1987), a sulfonylurea (Sathasiivan et al., 1990), an imidazolinone (U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,633,437; 6,613,963), bromoxynil (Stalker et al., 1988), dalapon or 2,2-Dichloropropionic acid (Buchanan-Wollaston et al., 1989), cyclohexanedione (U.S. Pat. No. 6,414,222), a protoporphyrinogen oxidase inhibitor (U.S. Pat. No. 5,939,602), norflurazon (Misawa et al., 1993 and Misawa et al., 1994), or isoxaflutole (WO 96/38567) herbicide, among others. The auxin-like herbicide and the second herbicide may be applied simultaneously or separately. In a particular embodiment, the second herbicide is glyphosate and the auxin-like herbicide is dicamba. In one embodiment, the plant comprises a nucleic acid that has at least 70% sequence identity to a nucleic acid sequence of any one or more of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, or 11, including at least about 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 97%, 98%, 99% and greater sequence identity to these sequence.
In further embodiments, a plant such as the foregoing is defined as comprising a transgene conferring glyphosate tolerance. Glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthases (EPSPS) are well known in the art and disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,627,061, 5,633,435, 6,040,497, 5,094,945, WO04074443, and WO04009761. Nucleic acids encoding glyphosate degrading enzymes, for example, glyphosate oxidoreductase (GOX, U.S. Pat. No. 5,463,175), and nucleic acids encoding glyphosate inactivating enzymes, such as glyphosate-N-acetyl transferase (GAT, U.S. Patent publication 20030083480; U.S. Patent Publication 20070079393) and glyphosate decarboxylase (WO05003362 and U.S. Patent Application No. 20040177399) are also known. In certain embodiments, the GAT enzyme comprises the sequence of GAT4601 (SEQ ID NO:19), or is encoded by a transgene comprising the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:18. In a particular embodiment, the GAT polypeptide is expressed using the SCP1 promoter.
In the method, treating the field may be carried out at a time selected from the group consisting of between about the 1 to 2 leaf and 3 to 4 leaf stages, before flowering, at flowering, after flowering, and at seed formation. Treating the field may further be defined as carried out at a time proximate to step a) such that the seed germinates while the auxin-like herbicide remains in the soil in an amount effective to control growth of the weed. In the method, treating the field may be carried out about three weeks, two weeks 1 week or 0 weeks before step a). The auxin-like herbicide may be selected from the group consisting of a phenoxy carboxylic acid compound, benzoic acid compound, pyridine carboxylic acid compound, quinoline carboxylic acid compound, and benazolinethyl compound.
The phenoxy carboxylic acid compound may be selected from the group consisting of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid, and 4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)butyric acid (2,4-DB). The amount of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic compound used may be lower than about 280 g/ha. The amount of 4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)butyric acid (2,4-DB) used may be lower than about 1120 g/ha. The amount of (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy) acetic acid compound used may be lower than about 280 g/ha. In one embodiment, the auxin like herbicide is dicamba. The amount of dicamba used may be, for example, from about 2.5 g/ha to about 10,080 g/ha, including about 2.5 g/ha to about 1040 g/ha, about 5 g/ha to about 2040 g/ha, about 10 g/a to about 820 g/h, and about 50 g/ha to about 1000 g/ha. The amount of glyphosate may be from about 200 g/ha to about 1,600 g/h, including from about 200 g/ha to about 1,000 g/h, from about 200 g/ha to about 800 g/h, from about 200 g/ha to about 400 g/h, and from about 400 g/ha to about 800 g/h.
In yet another aspect, the invention provides a method for controlling weed growth in a crop-growing environment comprising: a) applying a herbicidally effective amount of an auxin-like herbicide to a crop-growing environment; b) planting a transgenic seed of a monocotyledonous plant comprising a nucleic acid encoding a dicamba degrading enzymatic activity, such as dicamba monooxygenase, in soil of the crop-growing environment within 21 days of applying the auxin-like herbicide, wherein the herbicidally effective amount is an amount that does not damage the transgenic seed or a plant that germinates therefrom but will damage a seed or a plant that germinates therefrom of the same genotype that lacks the nucleic acid and is planted under the same conditions as the transgenic seed, wherein the nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of (1) a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:8, (2) a nucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:7, (3) a nucleic acid sequence that hybridizes to a complement of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7 under conditions of 5×SSC, 50% formamide and 42° C., (4) a nucleic acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7, and (5) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least 70% sequence identity to the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:8; and c) allowing the seed to germinate into a plant. The nucleic acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7 may encode a polypeptide comprising a cysteine residue at position 112. This embodiment may combined with any of the methods and compositions provided above.
In particular embodiments of the invention, herbicide treatments to monocot plants may be made at higher rates and/or in closer proximity to emergence of crops than previously could be made without damaging crops. In specific embodiments, a herbicidally effective amount of 2,4-D and/or MCPA, such as, for example, at least about 200, 300, 300, 500, 590, 650, 700, 800 or more g/ha of either or both herbicides, including from about 300 to about 1200 g/ha, from about 500 to about 1200 g/ha, from about 600 to about 1200 g/ha, from about 590 to about 1400 g/ha, and from about 700 to about 1100 g/ha of either or both herbicides. The herbicide may also be dicamba and the herbicidally effective amount may be, for example, at least about 168, 175, 190, 200, 225, 250, 280, 300, 400, 500, 560 or more g/ha of dicamba, including from about 200 g/ha to about 600 g/ha, from about 250 g/ha to about 600 g/ha, from about 250 g/ha to about 800 g/ha, from about 225 g/ha to about 1120 g/ha, and from about 250 g/ha to about 1200 g/ha, from about 280 g/ha to about 1120 g/ha and from about 560 g/ha to about 1120 g/ha. In particular embodiment, the monocotyledonous plant is selected from the group consisting of corn, rice, sorghum, wheat, rye, millet, sugarcane, oat, triticale, switchgrass, and turfgrass. Expressing the transgenic dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity such as a monooxygenase, in a monocotyledonous crop plant, such as corn, allows application of a higher level of dicamba to the crop for the purpose of weed control at any stage of plant growth, as compared to the level of dicamba that may be applied to a monocotyledonous crop plant that does not comprise a transgene that encodes such a dicamba-degrading enzymatic activity.
In yet another aspect, the invention provides a method for controlling weed growth in a field comprising: a) applying a herbicidally effective amount of an auxin-like herbicide other than dicamba to a field, wherein the field comprises a transgenic dicotyledonous plant comprising a nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase or is planted with a seed that germinates into said transgenic dicotyledonous plant within 21 days of applying the herbicide, wherein the herbicidally effective amount is an amount that does not damage the transgenic dicotyledonous plant but will damage a plant of the same genotype that lacks the nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase, wherein the nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of (1) a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:8, (2) a nucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:7, (3) a nucleic acid sequence that hybridizes to a complement of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7 under conditions of 5×SSC, 50% formamide and 42° C., (4) a nucleic acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7, and (5) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least 70% sequence identity to the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:8; and b) allowing the transgenic dicotyledonous plant to grow. In the method, step a) may comprise applying the herbicidally effective amount of an auxin-like herbicide to a growing environment adjacent to a growing environment comprising the transgenic dicotyledonous plant and allowing the herbicide to drift onto the plant or soil in which the plant grows. The auxin-like herbicide may be any herbicide as described herein. In the method, step b) may comprise allowing the transgenic dicotyledonous plant to grow to maturity. In specific embodiments, the herbicidally effective amount may be defined as an amount that does not damage the transgenic plant.
In yet another aspect, the invention provides a method for increasing the efficiency of use of a herbicide delivery device comprising: a) obtaining a device that has been used to deliver a first composition comprising an auxin-like herbicide; and b) delivering a second composition to the field using the device without first completely washing the device so that a herbicide residue comprising the auxin-like herbicide remains in the device and is delivered with the second composition to the field, wherein the field comprises a transgenic dicotyledonous plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase or is planted with a seed that germinates into said transgenic dicotyledonous plant within 21 days of delivering the second composition, wherein the herbicide residue is present in an amount that does not damage the transgenic dicotyledonous plant but will damage a plant of the same genotype that lacks the nucleic acid encoding dicamba monooxygenase, wherein the nucleic acid is selected from the group consisting of (1) a nucleic acid sequence encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:8, (2) a nucleic acid sequence comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:7, (3) a nucleic acid sequence that hybridizes to a complement of the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7 under conditions of 5×SSC, 50% formamide and 42° C., (4) a nucleic acid sequence having at least 70% sequence identity to the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7, and (5) a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least 70% sequence identity to the polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:8.
The invention relates, in one aspect, to the unexpected discovery that pre-emergent applications of auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba may be made close to, or even concurrently with the planting of crops. The invention provides superior weed control options, including reduction and/or prevention of herbicide tolerance in weeds. Pre-emergent applications of auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba have previously required herbicide applications well in advance of planting and germination of plants susceptible to auxin-like herbicides to allow breakdown of the herbicide in the environment and avoid significant crop damage or death. Most crop plants, and particularly dicotyledonous plants such as soybeans and cotton are extremely sensitive to dicamba. Thus, the recommended post-application delays in planting by manufacturers must be closely followed.
Young plantlets and seeds are particularly sensitive to herbicides. Even in transgenic seeds and plants, immature tissues can insufficiently express the gene needed to render them tolerant to the herbicide, or may not have accumulated sufficient levels of the protein to confer tolerance. For example, mature plants have been found exhibiting high levels of tolerance to the herbicides Harness™ (acetochlor), Lasso™ (alachlor), Treflan™ (Trifluralin), Eptam™ (EPTC), and/or Far-Go™ (triallate) but susceptibility to the herbicides at germination. As a result of this variability in young tissues, crop response to post-emergence applications (e.g., in more mature vegetative tissues) of dicamba herbicides can significantly differ from the crop response to pre-emergent applications of herbicides in which younger more sensitive tissues are exposed. The former does not necessarily predict the latter. This is underscored in the case of plants highly sensitive to a given herbicide, such as dicots and the herbicide dicamba. Thus, the present invention unexpectedly shows that higher than predicted levels of crop safety can be achieved from pre-emergence applications of dicamba.
The present invention employs auxin-like herbicides, which are also called auxinic or growth regulator herbicides, or Group 4 herbicides (based on their mode of action). These types of herbicides mimic or act like the natural plant growth regulators called auxins. The action of auxinic herbicides appears to affect cell wall plasticity and nucleic acid metabolism, which can lead to uncontrolled cell division and growth.
Auxin-like herbicides include four chemical families: phenoxy, carboxylic acid (or pyridine), benzoic acid, and quinaline carboxylic acid. Phenoxy herbicides are most common and have been used as herbicides since the 1940s when (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid (2,4-D) was discovered. Other examples include 4-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)butyric acid (2,4-DB), 2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)propanoic acid (2,4-DP), (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy)acetic acid (2,4,5-T), 2-(2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxy)Propionic Acid (2,4,5-TP), 2-(2,4-dichloro-3-methylphenoxy)-N-phenylpropanamide (clomeprop), (4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid (MCPA), 4-(4-chloro-o-tolyloxy)butyric acid (MCPB), and 2-(4-chloro-2-methylphenoxy)propanoic acid (MCPP).
The next largest chemical family is the carboxylic acid herbicides, also called pyridine herbicides. Examples include 3,6-dichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid (Clopyralid), 4-amino-3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid (picloram), (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy) acetic acid (triclopyr), and 4-amino-3,5-dichloro-6-fluoro-2-pyridyloxyacetic acid (fluoroxypyr). Examples of benzoic acids include 3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid (dicamba) and 3-amino-2,5-dichlorobenzoic acid (choramben). Dicamba is a particularly useful herbicide for use in the present invention. A fourth chemical family of auxinic herbicides is the quinaline carboxylic acid family. Example includes 3,7-dichloro-8-quinolinecarboxylic acid (quinclorac). This herbicide is unique in that it also will control some grass weeds, unlike the other auxin-like herbicides which essentially control only broadleaf or dicotyledonous plants. The other herbicide in this category is 7-chloro-3-methyl-8-quinolinecarboxylic acid (quinmerac).
It was found, for example, that soybean plants transformed with dicamba monooxygenase (DMO)-encoding polynucleotide constructs were tolerant to even early pre-emergence application of dicamba, with less than 10% injury rates at even 9× the labeled application rate (5,040 g/ha, 4.5 lb/acre; Table 1). The inventors found that, even using an 18× application rate of 10,080 g/ha (9 lb/acre), injury to transgenic dicamba tolerant plants was less than 20% (Table 4). At an approximately 2× rate of application of 1122 g/ha, less than 2% injury was observed. It was therefore indicated the improved weed control associated with pre- and post-emergence applications of herbicides may be used without any significant decreases in productivity due to herbicide damage. Pre-emergent applications of dicamba according to the invention may therefore be combined with one or more herbicide applications post-emergence to dicamba-tolerant plants, while maintaining crop yield and obtaining improved weed control. For example, one such herbicide application regime involved a late pre-emergence application of dicamba in conjunction with a post-emergence application of dicamba at the V2 stage of development. In certain embodiments, the post-emergence application may be carried out at any point from emergence to harvest. Particularly beneficial will be post-emergence application at any V stage until the soybean canopy closes, for example, at about the V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6 and/or later stages.
In accordance with the invention, methods and compositions for the control of weeds are provided comprising the use of plants exhibiting tolerance to glyphosate and auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba. As shown in the working examples, dicamba and glyphosate allow use of decreased amounts of herbicide to achieve the same level of control of glyphosate-tolerant weeds and thus this embodiment provides a significant advance for the control of herbicide tolerance in commercial production fields. In one embodiment, a tank mix of glyphosate and dicamba is applied pre- and/or post-emergence to plants. Glyphosate and dicamba may additionally be applied separately. In order to obtain the ability to use decreased amount of herbicide, the glyphosate and dicamba are preferably applied within a sufficient interval that both herbicides remain active and able to control weed growth.
This embodiment therefore allows use of lower amounts of either herbicide to achieve the same degree of weed control as an application of only one of the herbicides. For example, the invention provides methods of weed control comprising applying in a field planted with transgenic plants having tolerance to dicamba and glyphosate a herbicide composition comprising less than a 1× rate of glyphosate and/or dicamba, relative to the standard manufacturer labeled rate. Examples of respective glyphosate and dicamba application rates include from about a 0.5×-0.95× of either herbicide, specifically including about 0.5×, 0.6×, 0.7×, 0.8×, 0.85×, 0.9×, and 0.95× of either herbicide and all derivable combinations thereof, as well as higher rates such as 0.97× and 0.99×. Alternatively, in the case of more difficult to control weeds or where a greater degree of weed control is desired, 1× and higher application rates may be made in view of the finding herein that even high application rates of dicamba did not significantly damage plants. The 1× application rates are set by the manufacturer of a commercially available herbicide formulation and are known to those of skill in the art. For example, the label for Fallow Master™, a glyphosate and dicamba mixture having a ratio of glyphosate:dicamba of about 2:1 recommends application rates of about 451 g/ha (311 ae g/ha glyphosate:140 ae g/ha dicamba) to 621 ae g/ha (428 ae g/ha glyphosate: 193 ae g/ha dicamba) depending upon the weed species and weed height.
“Glyphosate” refers to N-phosphonomethylglycine and salts thereof. Glyphosate is commercially available in numerous formulations. Examples of these formulations of glyphosate include, without limitation, those sold by Monsanto Company as ROUNDUP®, ROUNDUP® ULTRA, ROUNDUP® ULTRAMAX, ROUNDUP® CT, ROUNDUP® EXTRA, ROUNDUP® BIACTIVE, ROUNDUP® BIOFORCE, RODEO®, POLARIS®, SPARK® and ACCORD® herbicides, all of which contain glyphosate as its isopropylammonium salt, ROUNDUP® WEATHERMAX containing glyphosate as its potassium salt; ROUNDUP® DRY and RIVAL® herbicides, which contain glyphosate as its ammonium salt; ROUNDUP® GEOFORCE, which contains glyphosate as its sodium salt; and TOUCHDOWN® herbicide, which contains glyphosate as its trimethylsulfonium salt. “Dicamba” refers to 3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid or 3,6-dichloro-2-methoxy benzoic acid and its acids and salts. Its salts include isopropylamine, diglycoamine, dimethylamine, potassium and sodium. Examples of commercial formulations of dicamba include, without limitation, Banvel™ (as DMA salt), Clarity™ (as DGA salt), VEL-58-CS-11™ and Vanquish™ (as DGA salt, BASF).
Non-limiting examples of weeds that can be effectively controlled using dicamba are the following: cheese weed, chick weed, while clover, cocklebur, Asiatic dayflower, dead-nettle, red stem filaree, Carolina geranium, hemp sesbania, henbit, field horsetail (marestail), knotweed, kochia, lambs-quarter, morninglory, indian mustard, wild mustard, redroot pigweed, smooth pigweed, prickly sida, cutleaf evening primrose, common purslane, common ragweed, gaint ragweed, russian thistle, shepardspurse, pennsylvania smartweed, spurge, velvetleaf, field violet, wild buckwheat, wild radish, soybeanpurslane, sicklepod, morninglory, wild buckwheat, common ragweed, horseweed (marestail), hairy fleabane, buckhorn plantain, and palmer pigweed. Non-limiting examples of weeds that can be controlled using dicamba and glyphosate are the following: barnyardgrass, downy brome, volunteer cereals, Persian darnel, field sandbur, green foxtail, wild oats, wild buckwheat, volunteer canola, cowcockle, flix-weed, kochia, ladysthumb, lambsquarters, wild mustard, prickly lettuce, redroot pigweed, smartweed, stinkgrass, stinkweed, russian thistle, foxtail, and witchgrass. Combining glyphosate and dicamba achieves the same level of weed control with reduced herbicide amounts and thus the spectrum of weeds that may be controlled at any given herbicide application rate may be increased when the herbicides are combined.
Transgenic plants having herbicide tolerance may be made as described in the art. Dicamba tolerance may be conferred, for example, by a gene for dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) from Pseudomonas maltophilia (US Patent Application No: 20030135879). Examples of sequences that may be used in this regard are nucleic acid encoding the polypeptides of SEQ ID Nos: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. Examples of sequences encoding these polypeptides are given as SEQ ID NOS: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. SEQ ID NO: 1 shows DMO from Pseudomonas maltophilia optimized for expression in dicots using Arabidopsis thaliana codon usage. The polypeptide, predicted to have an Ala, Thr, Cys at positions 2, 3, 112, respectively, is given in SEQ ID NO:2. SEQ ID NO:3 shows another Pseudomonas maltophilia DMO optimized for expression in dicots and encoding the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:4, predicted to have an Leu, Thr, Cys at positions 2, 3, 112, respectively. SEQ ID NO:5 shows the coding sequence and SEQ ID NO:6 the polypeptide for dicot optimized DMO predicted to have a Leu, Thr, Trp at positions 2, 3, 112, respectively. SEQ ID NOS:7 and 8 show the coding and polypeptide sequences for DMO predicted to have an Ala, Thr, Cys at position 2, 3, 112, respectively. SEQ ID NOS:9 and 10 show the dicot-optimized coding sequence and polypeptide sequences for DMO predicted to have an Ala, Thr, Trp at positions 2, 3, 112, respectively. SEQ ID NOS:11 and 12 show coding sequence and polypeptide sequences for DMO from Pseudomonas maltophilia (US Patent Application No: 20030135879). Another exemplary DMO sequence may be a DMO predicted to have a Leu, Thr, Cys at position 2, 3, 112, respectively with codon usage of Pseudomonas maltophilia (US Patent Application No: 20030135879).
Sequences conferring glyphosate tolerance are also known, including glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthases (EPSPS) as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,627,061, 5,633,435, 6,040,497, 5,094,945, WO04074443, WO04009761, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference; by expression of nucleic acids encoding glyphosate degrading enzymes, for example, glyphosate oxidoreductase (GOX, U.S. Pat. No. 5,463,175, herein incorporated by reference), glyphosate decarboxylase (WO05003362; US Patent Application 20040177399, herein incorporated by reference); and by expression of nucleic acids encoding glyphosate inactivating enzymes, such as glyphosate-N-acetyl transferase (GAT, e.g. U.S. Patent publications 20030083480 and 20070079393, herein incorporated by reference).
Variants of proteins having a capability to degrade auxin-like herbicides, glyphosate or other herbicides can readily be prepared and assayed for activity according to standard methods. Such sequences can also be identified by techniques know in the art, for example, from suitable organisms including bacteria that degrade auxin-like herbicides such as dicamba or other herbicides (U.S. Pat. No. 5,445,962; Cork and Krueger, 1991; Cork and Khalil, 1995). One means of isolating a DMO or other sequence is by nucleic acid hybridization, for example, to a library constructed from the source organism, or by RT-PCR using mRNA from the source organism and primers based on the disclosed desaturases. The invention therefore encompasses use of nucleic acids hybridizing under stringent conditions to a DMO encoding sequence described herein. One of skill in the art understands that conditions may be rendered less stringent by increasing salt concentration and decreasing temperature. Thus, hybridization conditions can be readily manipulated, and thus will generally be a method of choice depending on the desired results. An example of high stringency conditions is 5×SSC, 50% formamide and 42° C. By conducting a wash under such conditions, for example, for 10 minutes, those sequences not hybridizing to a particular target sequence under these conditions can be removed.
Variants can also be chemically synthesized, for example, using the known DMO polynucleotide sequences according to techniques well known in the art. For instance, DNA sequences may be synthesized by phosphoamidite chemistry in an automated DNA synthesizer. Chemical synthesis has a number of advantages. In particular, chemical synthesis is desirable because codons preferred by the host in which the DNA sequence will be expressed may be used to optimize expression. Not all of the codons need to be altered to obtain improved expression, but preferably at least the codons rarely used in the host are changed to host-preferred codons. High levels of expression can be obtained by changing greater than about 50%, most preferably at least about 80%, of the codons to host-preferred codons. The codon preferences of many host cells are known (PCT WO 97/31115; PCT WO 97/11086; EP 646643; EP 553494; and U.S. Patent Nos: 5,689,052; 5,567,862; 5,567,600; 5,552,299 and 5,017,692). The codon preferences of other host cells can be deduced by methods known in the art. Also, using chemical synthesis, the sequence of the DNA molecule or its encoded protein can be readily changed to, for example, optimize expression (for example, eliminate mRNA secondary structures that interfere with transcription or translation), add unique restriction sites at convenient points, and delete protease cleavage sites.
Modification and changes may be made to the polypeptide sequence of a protein such as the DMO sequences provided herein while retaining enzymatic activity. The following is a discussion based upon changing the amino acids of a protein to create an equivalent, or even an improved, modified polypeptide and corresponding coding sequences. It is known, for example, that certain amino acids may be substituted for other amino acids in a protein structure without appreciable loss of interactive binding capacity with structures such as binding sites on substrate molecules. Since it is the interactive capacity and nature of a protein that defines that protein's biological functional activity, certain amino acid sequence substitutions can be made in a protein sequence, and, of course, its underlying DNA coding sequence, and nevertheless obtain a protein with like properties. It is thus contemplated that various changes may be made in the DMO peptide sequences described herein or other herbicide tolerance polypeptides and corresponding DNA coding sequences without appreciable loss of their biological utility or activity.
In making such changes, the hydropathic index of amino acids may be considered. The importance of the hydropathic amino acid index in conferring interactive biologic function on a protein is generally understood in the art (Kyte et al., 1982). It is accepted that the relative hydropathic character of the amino acid contributes to the secondary structure of the resultant protein, which in turn defines the interaction of the protein with other molecules, for example, enzymes, substrates, receptors, DNA, antibodies, antigens, and the like. Each amino acid has been assigned a hydropathic index on the basis of their hydrophobicity and charge characteristics (Kyte et al., 1982), these are: isoleucine (+4.5); valine (+4.2); leucine (+3.8); phenylalanine (+2.8); cysteine/cystine (+2.5); methionine (+1.9); alanine (+1.8); glycine (−0.4); threonine (−0.7); serine (−0.8); tryptophan (−0.9); tyrosine (−1.3); proline (−1.6); histidine (−3.2); glutamate (−3.5); glutamine (−3.5); aspartate (−3.5); asparagine (−3.5); lysine (−3.9); and arginine (−4.5).
It is known in the art that amino acids may be substituted by other amino acids having a similar hydropathic index or score and still result in a protein with similar biological activity, i.e., still obtain a biological functionally equivalent protein. In making such changes, the substitution of amino acids whose hydropathic indices are within ±2 is preferred, those which are within ±1 are particularly preferred, and those within ±0.5 are even more particularly preferred.
It is also understood in the art that the substitution of like amino acids can be made effectively on the basis of hydrophilicity. U.S. Pat. No. 4,554,101 states that the greatest local average hydrophilicity of a protein, as governed by the hydrophilicity of its adjacent amino acids, correlates with a biological property of the protein. As detailed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,554,101, the following hydrophilicity values have been assigned to amino acid residues: arginine (+3.0); lysine (+3.0); aspartate (+3.0±1); glutamate (+3.0±1); serine (+0.3); asparagine (+0.2); glutamine (+0.2); glycine (0); threonine (−0.4); proline (−0.5±1); alanine (−0.5); histidine (−0.5); cysteine (−1.0); methionine (−1.3); valine (−1.5); leucine (−1.8); isoleucine (−1.8); tyrosine (−2.3); phenylalanine (−2.5); tryptophan (−3.4). It is understood that an amino acid can be substituted for another having a similar hydrophilicity value and still obtain a biologically equivalent protein. In such changes, the substitution of amino acids whose hydrophilicity values are within ±2 is preferred, those which are within ±1 are particularly preferred, and those within ±0.5 are even more particularly preferred. Exemplary substitutions which take these and various of the foregoing characteristics into consideration are well known to those of skill in the art and include: arginine and lysine; glutamate and aspartate; serine and threonine; glutamine and asparagine; and valine, leucine and isoleucine.
A gene conferring herbicide tolerance will typically be linked to a plant promoter driving expression of the gene in an amount sufficient to confer the herbicide tolerance. Promoters suitable for this and other uses are well known in the art. Examples describing such promoters include U.S. Pat. No. 6,437,217 (maize RS81 promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 5,641,876 (rice actin promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,426,446 (maize RS324 promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,429,362 (maize PR-1 promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,232,526 (maize A3 promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,177,611 (constitutive maize promoters), U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,322,938, 5,352,605, 5,359,142 and 5,530,196 (35S promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,433,252 (maize L3 oleosin promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,429,357 (rice actin 2 promoter as well as a rice actin 2 intron), U.S. Pat. No. 5,837,848 (root specific promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,294,714 (light inducible promoters), U.S. Pat. No. 6,140,078 (salt inducible promoters), U.S. Pat. No. 6,252,138 (pathogen inducible promoters), U.S. Pat. No. 6,175,060 (phosphorus deficiency inducible promoters), U.S. Pat. No. 6,388,170 (PC1SV promoter), U.S. Pat. No. 6,635,806 (gamma-coixin promoter), and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/757,089 (maize chloroplast aldolase promoter). Additional promoters that may find use are a nopaline synthase (NOS) promoter (Ebert et al., 1987), the octopine synthase (OCS) promoter (which is carried on tumor-inducing plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens), the caulimovirus promoters such as the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 19S promoter (Lawton et al., 1987), the CaMV 35S promoter (Odell et al., 1985), the figwort mosaic virus 35S-promoter (Walker et al., 1987), the sucrose synthase promoter (Yang et al., 1990), the R gene complex promoter (Chandler et al., 1989), the chlorophyll a/b binding protein gene promoter, CaMV35S (U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,322,938; 5,352,605; 5,359,142; and 5,530,196), FMV35S (U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,051,753; 5,378,619), a PC1SV promoter (U.S. Pat. No. 5,850,019; or SEQ ID NO:20), the SCP promoter (U.S. Pat. No. 6,677,503), and AGRtu.nos (GenBank Accession V00087; Depicker et al, 1982; Bevan et al., 1983) promoters, and the like (see also see Table 1).
Benefit may be obtained for the expression of herbicide tolerance genes by use of a sequence coding for a transit peptide. For example, incorporation of a suitable chloroplast transit peptide, such as, the Arabidopsis thaliana EPSPS CTP (Klee et al., 1987), and the Petunia hybrida EPSPS CTP (della-Cioppa et al., 1986) has been shown to target heterologous EPSPS protein sequences to chloroplasts in transgenic plants. Chloroplast transit peptides (CTPs) are engineered to be fused to the N-terminus of a protein to direct the protein into the plant chloroplast. Such sequences may find use in connection with a nucleic acid conferring dicamba tolerance in particular. Many chloroplast-localized proteins are expressed from nuclear genes as precursors and are targeted to the chloroplast by a chloroplast transit peptide that is removed during the import process. Examples of chloroplast proteins include the small subunit (RbcS2) of ribulose-1,5,-bisphosphate carboxylase, ferredoxin, ferredoxin oxidoreductase, the light-harvesting complex protein I and protein II, and thioredoxin F. Other exemplary chloroplast targeting sequences include the maize cab-m7 signal sequence (Becker et al., 1992; PCT WO 97/41228), the pea glutathione reductase signal sequence (Creissen et al., 1995; PCT WO 97/41228), and the CTP of the Nicotiana tabacum ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit chloroplast transit peptide (SSU-CTP) (Mazur, et al., 1985). Use of AtRbcS4 (CTP1; U.S. Pat. No. 5,728,925), AtShkG (CTP2; Klee et al., 1987), AtShkGZm (CTP2synthetic; see SEQ ID NO:14 of WO04009761), and PsRbcS (Coruzzi et al., 1984), as well as others disclosed, for instance, in U.S. Provisional Patent Application 60/891,675, peptide and nucleic acid sequences for which are listed herein at SEQ ID NOs:21-32, may be of benefit for use with the invention.
A 5′ UTR that functions as a translation leader sequence is a DNA genetic element located between the promoter sequence of a gene and the coding sequence. The translation leader sequence is present in the fully processed mRNA upstream of the translation start sequence. The translation leader sequence may affect processing of the primary transcript to mRNA, mRNA stability or translation efficiency. Examples of translation leader sequences include maize and petunia heat shock protein leaders (U.S. Pat. No. 5,362,865), plant virus coat protein leaders, plant rubisco leaders, among others (Turner and Foster, 1995). Non-limiting examples of 5′ UTRs that may in particular be of benefit for use GmHsp (U.S. Pat. No. 5,659,122), PhDnaK (U.S. Pat. No. 5,362,865), AtAnt1, TEV (Carrington and Freed, 1990), and AGRtunos (GenBank Accession V00087; Bevan et al., 1983).
The 3′ non-translated sequence, 3′ transcription termination region, or poly adenylation region means a DNA molecule linked to and located downstream of a structural polynucleotide molecule and includes polynucleotides that provide polyadenylation signal and other regulatory signals capable of affecting transcription, mRNA processing or gene expression. The polyadenylation signal functions in plants to cause the addition of polyadenylate nucleotides to the 3′ end of the mRNA precursor. The polyadenylation sequence can be derived from the natural gene, from a variety of plant genes, or from T-DNA genes. An example of a 3′ transcription termination region is the nopaline synthase 3′ region (nos 3′; Fraley et al., 1983). The use of different 3′ nontranslated regions is exemplified (Ingelbrecht et al., 1989). Polyadenylation molecules from a Pisum sativum RbcS2 gene (Ps.R-bcS2-E9; Coruzzi et al., 1984) and AGRtu.nos (Rojiyaa et al., 1987, Genbank Accession E01312) in particular may be of benefit for use with the invention.
Intron sequences are known in the art to aid in the expression of transgenes in monocot plant cells. Examples of introns include the corn actin intron (U.S. Pat. No. 5,641,876), the corn HSP70 intron (ZmHSP70; U.S. Pat. No. 5,859,347; U.S. Pat. No. 5,424,412), and rice TPI intron (OsTPI; U.S. Pat. No. 7,132,528), and are of benefit in practicing this invention.
Any of the techniques known in the art for introduction of transgenes into plants may be used to prepare a herbicide tolerant plant in accordance with the invention (see, for example, Miki et al., 1993). Suitable methods for transformation of plants are believed to include virtually any method by which DNA can be introduced into a cell, such as by electroporation as illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 5,384,253; micro-projectile bombardment as illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,015,580; 5,550,318; 5,538,880; 6,160,208; 6,399,861; and 6,403,865; Agrobacterium-mediated transformation as illustrated in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,635,055; 5,824,877; 5,591,616; 5,981,840; and 6,384,301; and protoplast transformation as illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 5,508,184, etc. Through the application of techniques such as these, the cells of virtually any plant species may be stably transformed, and these cells developed into transgenic plants. Techniques that may be particularly useful in the context of cotton transformation are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,846,797, 5,159,135, 5,004,863, and 6,624,344; and techniques for transforming Brassica plants in particular are disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,750,871; and techniques for transforming soybean are disclosed in for example in Zhang et al., 1999 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,384,301). Corn can be transformed using methods described in WO9506722 and US patent application 20040244075.
After effecting delivery of exogenous DNA to recipient cells, the next steps generally concern identifying the transformed cells for further culturing and plant regeneration. In order to improve the ability to identify transformants, one may desire to employ a selectable or screenable marker gene with a transformation vector prepared in accordance with the invention. In this case, one would then generally assay the potentially transformed cell population by exposing the cells to a selective agent or agents, or one would screen the cells for the desired marker gene trait.
Cells that survive the exposure to the selective agent, or cells that have been scored positive in a screening assay, may be cultured in media that supports regeneration of plants. In an exemplary embodiment, any suitable plant tissue culture media, for example, MS and N6 media may be modified by including further substances such as growth regulators. Tissue may be maintained on a basic media with growth regulators until sufficient tissue is available to begin plant regeneration efforts, or following repeated rounds of manual selection, until the morphology of the tissue is suitable for regeneration, typically at least 2 weeks, then transferred to media conducive to shoot formation. Cultures are transferred periodically until sufficient shoot formation has occurred. Once shoot are formed, they are transferred to media conducive to root formation. Once sufficient roots are formed, plants can be transferred to soil for further growth and maturity.
To confirm the presence of the exogenous DNA or “transgene(s)” in the regenerating plants, a variety of assays may be performed. Such assays include, for example, “molecular biological” assays, such as Southern and Northern blotting and PCR™; “biochemical” assays, such as detecting the presence of a protein product, e.g., by immunological means (ELISAs and Western blots) or by enzymatic function; plant part assays, such as leaf or root assays; and also, by analyzing the phenotype of the whole regenerated plant.
Once a transgene has been introduced into a plant, that gene can be introduced into any plant sexually compatible with the first plant by crossing, without the need for ever directly transforming the second plant. Therefore, as used herein the term “progeny” denotes the offspring of any generation of a parent plant prepared in accordance with the instant invention, wherein the progeny comprises a selected DNA construct prepared in accordance with the invention. A “transgenic plant” may thus be of any generation. “Crossing” a plant to provide a plant line having one or more added transgenes or alleles relative to a starting plant line, as disclosed herein, is defined as the techniques that result in a particular sequence being introduced into a plant line by crossing a starting line with a donor plant line that comprises a transgene or allele of the invention. To achieve this one could, for example, perform the following steps: (a) plant seeds of the first (starting line) and second (donor plant line that comprises a desired transgene or allele) parent plants; (b) grow the seeds of the first and second parent plants into plants that bear flowers; (c) pollinate a flower from the first parent plant with pollen from the second parent plant; and (d) harvest seeds produced on the parent plant bearing the fertilized flower.
The preparation of herbicide compositions for use in connection with the current invention will be apparent to those of skill in the art in view of the disclosure. Such compositions, which are commercially available, will typically include, in addition to the active ingredient, components such as surfactants, solid or liquid carriers, solvents and binders. Examples of surfactants that may be used for application to plants include the alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salts of aromatic sulfonic acids, e.g., ligno-, phenol-, naphthalene- and dibutylnaphthalenesulfonic acid, and of fatty acids of arylsulfonates, of alkyl ethers, of lauryl ethers, of fatty alcohol sulfates and of fatty alcohol glycol ether sulfates, condensates of sulfonated naphthalene and its derivatives with formaldehyde, condensates of naphthalene or of the naphthalenesulfonic acids with phenol and formaldehyde, condensates of phenol or phenolsulfonic acid with formaldehyde, condensates of phenol with formaldehyde and sodium sulfite, polyoxyethylene octylphenyl ether, ethoxylated isooctyl-, octyl- or nonylphenol, tributylphenyl polyglycol ether, alkylaryl polyether alcohols, isotridecyl alcohol, ethoxylated castor oil, ethoxylated triarylphenols, salts of phosphated triarylphenolethoxylates, lauryl alcohol polyglycol ether acetate, sorbitol esters, lignin-sulfite waste liquors or methylcellulose, or mixtures of these. Common practice in the case of surfactant use is about 0.25% to 1.0% by weight, and more commonly about 0.25% to 0.5% by weight.
Compositions for application to plants may be solid or liquid. Where solid compositions are used, it may be desired to include one or more carrier materials with the active compound. Examples of carriers include mineral earths such as silicas, silica gels, silicates, talc, kaolin, attaclay, limestone, chalk, loess, clay, dolomite, diatomaceous earth, calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, magnesium oxide, ground synthetic materials, fertilizers such as ammonium sulfate, ammonium phosphate, ammonium nitrate, thiourea and urea, products of vegetable origin such as cereal meals, tree bark meal, wood meal and nutshell meal, cellulose powders, attapulgites, montmorillonites, mica, vermiculites, synthetic silicas and synthetic calcium silicates, or mixtures of these.
For liquid solutions, water-soluble compounds or salts may be included, such as sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium acetate, ammonium hydrogen sulfate, ammonium chloride, ammonium acetate, ammonium formate, ammonium oxalate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium thiosulfate, ammonium hydrogen diphosphate, ammonium dihydrogen monophosphate, ammonium sodium hydrogen phosphate, ammonium thiocyanate, ammonium sulfamate or ammonium carbamate.
Other exemplary components in herbicidal compositions include binders such as polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyvinyl alcohol, partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate, carboxymethylcellulose, starch, vinylpyrrolidone/vinyl acetate copolymers and polyvinyl acetate, or mixtures of these; lubricants such as magnesium stearate, sodium stearate, talc or polyethylene glycol, or mixtures of these; antifoams such as silicone emulsions, long-chain alcohols, phosphoric esters, acetylene diols, fatty acids or organofluorine compounds, and complexing agents such as: salts of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), salts of trinitrilotriacetic acid or salts of polyphosphoric acids, or mixtures of these.
Equipment and methods known in the art are used to apply various herbicide treatments as disclosed herein. The application rates of herbicides maybe varied, for instance as described above, depending upon the soil texture, pH, organic matter content, tillage systems, and the size of the weed, and can be determined by consulting the herbicide label for the proper herbicide rate.
The following examples are included to illustrate embodiments of the invention. It should be appreciated by those of skill in the art that the techniques disclosed in the examples that follow represent techniques discovered by the inventor to function well in the practice of the invention. However, those of skill in the art should, in light of the present disclosure, appreciate that many changes can be made in the specific embodiments which are disclosed and still obtain a like or similar result without departing from the concept, spirit and scope of the invention. More specifically, it will be apparent that certain agents which are both chemically and physiologically related may be substituted for the agents described herein while the same or similar results would be achieved. All such similar substitutes and modifications apparent to those skilled in the art are deemed to be within the spirit, scope and concept of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
Transgenic soybean plants were obtained by Agrobacterium transformation of soybean cotyledonary nodes using standard procedures and a binary vector containing the DMO-encoding polynucleotide given as SEQ ID NO:7, which encodes the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO:8. Four transgenic soybean events were prepared and designated Events 1-4. Transgenic soybean plants containing the events were tested for their tolerance to dicamba herbicide relative to controls, confirming herbicide tolerance. Non-transgenic soybean plants were used as controls.
Transgenic and control soybean seeds were planted into 3.5-inch square plastic pots containing Redi-earth™ (Scotts-Sierra Horticultural Products Co., Marysville, Ohio). The soil surface was treated with various amounts (561 to 5040 g/ha, 0.5 to 4.5 lb/acre, or 1× to 9× labeled rates) of dicamba formulations (Clarity™ or Banvel™, BASF, Raleigh, N.C.). The pots were placed on capillary matting in 35 inch×60 inch fiberglass watering trays for overhead and/or sub-irrigation for the duration of the test period so as to maintain optimum soil moisture for plant growth and were fertilized with Osmocote (14-14-14 slow release; Scotts-Sierra Horticultural Products Co., Marysville, Ohio) at the rate of 100 gm/cu.ft. to sustain plant growth for the duration of greenhouse trials.
The plants were grown in greenhouses at 27°/21° C. day/night temperature with relative humidity between 25%-75% to simulate warm season growing conditions of late spring. A 14 h minimum photoperiod was provided with supplemental light at about 600 μE as needed. Trials were established in a randomized block design randomized by rate with 4 to 6 replications of each treatment depending on plant quality, availability, and to account for any environmental variability that may have occurred within the confines of each greenhouse.
Treated plants in greenhouse trials were visually assessed at a particular day after treatment (DAT) for injury on a scale of 0 to 100 percent relative to untreated control plants, with zero representing “no” injury and 100% representing “complete” injury or death. Data were collected and analyzed using suitable statistical methods.
The results of the study surprisingly showed that soybean plants transformed with the DMO-encoding polynucleotide construct were tolerant to even early pre-emergence application of dicamba. As indicated in Table 1 below, injury to the transgenic plants was less than 10% even at the highest application rate i.e., 5040 g/ha, 4.5 lb/acre, or 9× labeled rates of dicamba.
TABLE 1
Percentage injury to non-transgenic or transgenic soybean
plants from early pre-emergence application of dicamba at
sowing. The % injury was represented as ANOVA mean
comparisons. Similar letters represent no statistical
difference at the p = 0.05 level.
% injury at shown
Formulation
rates (g ae/ha*) at 14 DAT
Clarity ™
ID
561
840
2244
4485
5040
Control
67.0
a
73.0
b
96.6
a
98.2
a
99.5
a
Control
61.0
a
86.0
a
98.1
a
98.3
a
99.8
a
Event 1
0.0
b
0.0
c
1.7
bc
0.7
b
3.1
b
Event 2
0.0
b
0.0
c
1.1
c
1.0
b
2.2
b
Event 3
0.0
b
0.0
c
1.1
c
0.6
b
3.5
b
Event 4
0.0
b
0.0
c
4.4
b
0.8
b
7.2
b
LSD
9.9
7.2
3.2
2.2
5.1
In addition to the method described in Example 2 for early pre-emergence (at sowing) application of dicamba, post-emergence (V2 stage of soybean development) application of dicamba was made with a track sprayer using the Teejet 9501E flat fan nozzle (Spraying Systems Co, Wheaton, Ill.) with the air pressure set at a minimum of 24 psi (165 kpa). The spray nozzle was kept at a height of about 16 inches above the top of the plant material for spraying. The spray volume was 10 gallons per acre or 93 liters per hectare.
As shown in Table 2, soybean plants transformed with the DMO-encoding polynucleotide construct were tolerant to early pre-emergence applications of dicamba at sowing followed by post-emergence application of dicamba. Surprisingly, injury to transgenic plants was less than 20% at the overall dicamba rate of 10080 g/ha, 9 lb/acre or 18× labeled rate.
TABLE 2
Percentage injury to non-transgenic or transgenic soybean
plants from application of dicamba at sowing followed
by post-emergence application at V2 stage.*
Formulation
% injury at shown rates (g ae/ha*) at 28 DAT
Clarity ™
Plants
1122
1680
4488
8970
10080
Control
97.5
a
98.8
a
99.8
a
100.0
a
100.0
a
Control
95.6
a
98.1
a
99.4
a
100.0
a
100.0
a
Event 1
0.0
c
1.8
b
4.5
d
11.9
c
16.9
b
Event 2
2.6
bc
3.9
b
8.1
bc
13.8
b
16.9
b
Event 3
3.1
b
2.9
b
8.8
b
11.9
c
17.5
b
Event 4
2.3
bc
2.0
b
6.9
c
11.9
c
15.6
b
LSD
3.1
2.2
1.4
1.6
1.9
*The % injury was represented as ANOVA mean comparisons. Similar letters represent no statistical difference at the p = 0.05 level.
An analysis was carried out of the effect of late pre-emergence applications of dicamba at soil cracking due to emergence of soybean seedling hypocotyls. Dicamba applications were made using a track sprayer as described in the previous examples. As shown in Table 3, soybean plants transformed with the DMO-encoding polynucleotide construct were found to be tolerant to late pre-emergence application of dicamba at soil cracking. Significantly, injury in the transgenic events was less than 5% even at the highest rate i.e., 5040 g/ha, 4.5 lb/acre, or 9× labeled rates of dicamba.
TABLE 3
Percentage injury to non-transgenic or transgenic
soybean plants from late pre-emergence
application of dicamba at soil cracking.*
% injury at shown
Formulation
rates (g ae/ha*) at 14 DAT
Clarity ™
Plants
561
840
2244
4485
5040
Control
86.9
a
96.8
a
98.4
A
98.5
a
99.2
a
Control
89.6
a
91.9
a
98.4
A
99.0
a
99.4
a
Event 1
0.0
b
0.0
b
0.5
C
2.5
bc
2.0
b
Event 2
0.0
b
0.0
b
2.9
bc
0.0
c
1.5
b
Event 3
0.0
b
0.0
b
1.5
bc
4.4
b
1.3
b
Event 4
0.0
b
0.5
b
3.3
B
3.0
bc
1.3
b
LSD
8.1
5.4
2.4
3.9
2.3
*The % injury was represented as ANOVA mean comparisons. Similar letters represent no statistical difference at the p = 0.05 level.
In addition to the studies above, an analysis was carried out of the effect of late pre-emergence applications of dicamba at soil cracking followed by post-emergence application of dicamba at the V2 stage of development. As shown in Table 4, soybean plants transformed with the DMO-encoding polynucleotide construct were tolerant to late pre-emergence application of dicamba at soil cracking and post-emergence application of dicamba. Injury to transgenic events was less than 20% even at the overall dicamba rate of 10080 g/ha, 9 lb/acre, or 18× labeled rate.
TABLE 4
Percentage injury to non-transgenic or transgenic soybean
plants from late pre-emergence application of dicamba at
soil cracking followed by post-emergence application at V2 stage.*
% injury at shown
Formulation
rates (g ae/ha*) at 28 DAT
Clarity ™
Plants
1122
1680
4488
8970
10080
Control
95.6
a
98.1
a
100.0
a
100.0
a
100.0
a
Control
95.0
a
98.1
a
99.4
a
99.8
a
100.0
a
Event 1
0.3
b
0.9
b
6.3
b
13.1
b
16.3
bc
Event 2
0.8
b
1.6
b
6.0
b
11.3
c
15.0
c
Event 3
1.0
b
1.4
b
7.5
b
11.3
c
17.5
b
Event 4
1.8
b
1.8
b
7.5
b
13.1
b
16.3
bc
LSD
4.5
2.7
1.6
1.6
1.9
*The % injury was represented as ANOVA mean comparisons. Similar letters represent no statistical difference at the p = 0.05 level.
Non-transgenic and transgenic soybean seeds were planted around the beginning of the growing season at the time of optimum growth conditions depending on soil moisture, temperature, and seeding depth. Across all locations seeds were planted under split-plot design with dicamba treatments as whole-plot effects and events as split-plot effects. The design details were as follows: 6 locations, 2 replications/location, 2 rows/plot, row length 12 feet (+3 ft alley), 9 seeds/foot, 108 seeds/row, 5 events (Events 1-4 and a fifth event that was segregating); and 4 treatments as shown below in Table 5. In all 240 plots were planted at 6 locations (40 per location).
TABLE 5
Details of 4 treatments applied to show the tolerance of
transgenic soybean to dicamba.
1st Application
2nd Application
Treatment
Rate
Plant Stage
Rate
Plant Stage
1
NO Dicamba
NO Dicamba
NO Dicamba
NO Dicamba
2
1.5 lb ae/acre
At Planting
N/A
N/A
3
N/A
N/A
1.5 lb ae/acre
V3-4
4
1.5 lb ae/acre
At Planting
1.5 lb ae/acre
V3-4
Four non-transgenic border rows were planted all around the trial using a known commercial line such as A3525. Optimum production and management practices known in the art were followed. Maximum pest control and disease control was practiced as needed to prevent confounding effects of dicamba applications. The field was irrigated as needed according to standard practices.
All plants in the field were treated with pre-emergence and post-emergence applications of dicamba and visually assessed at a particular day after planting for injury on a scale of 0 to 100 percent relative to untreated control plants, with zero representing “no” injury and 100% representing “complete” injury or death. Seed planting and pre-emergence treatment were carried out approximately one-month apart in late spring in Monmouth, Ill. As shown in Table 6, it was found that all transgenic soybean plants had no or very little injury. A fifth transgenic event used appeared to be segregating, so a certain percentage of plants died after the treatments.
TABLE 6
Tolerance of soybean plants containing DMO-
encoding polynucleotide construct to pre- and
post-emergence application of dicamba in field.*
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
Event
Inj
Inj
Inj
Inj
GR
Inj
GR
Dead or
#
Trmt
6/7
6/13
6/20
6/27
6/27
7/5
7/5
Stunted
1
No spray
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
No spray
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
No spray
0
0
0
1
0
3
3
0
2
No spray
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
No spray
0
0
0
1
0
3
0
0
3
No spray
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
4
No spray
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
4
No spray
0
0
0
0
0
5
0
0
5
No spray
0
0
0
7
0
5
2
0
5
No spray
0
0
0
7
3
7
3
0
1
Pre at
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
sowing
1
Pre at
0
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
sowing
2
Pre at
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
0
sowing
2
Pre at
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
sowing
3
Pre at
0
4
0
1
0
0
0
0
sowing
3
Pre at
0
2
0
5
0
3
0
0
sowing
4
Pre at
0
3
0
5
0
0
0
0
sowing
4
Pre at
0
4
0
2
0
0
0
0
sowing
5
Pre at
0
15
15
5
0
0
0
24
sowing
5
Pre at
0
8
10
2
0
0
0
14
sowing
1
Post at V3
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
0
1
Post at V3
0
0
0
7
0
0
0
2
2
Post at V3
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
2
Post at V3
0
0
0
3
0
2
0
1
3
Post at V3
0
0
0
3
3
0
0
0
3
Post at V3
0
0
0
5
0
3
0
0
4
Post at V3
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
4
Post at V3
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
5
Post at V3
0
0
0
7
0
2
0
15
5
Post at V3
0
0
0
5
5
2
0
15
1
Pre & Post
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
3
1
Pre & Post
0
2
2
5
3
0
0
0
2
Pre & Post
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
2
Pre & Post
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
3
Pre & Post
0
0
0
3
0
2
0
0
3
Pre & Post
0
2
0
3
0
0
0
0
4
Pre & Post
0
0
0
3
8
2
2
0
4
Pre & Post
0
1
0
3
3
0
0
0
5
Pre & Post
0
15
10
3
5
0
0
23
5
Pre & Post
0
10
10
1
0
0
0
20
*No spray means no dicamba was applied to the plants.
Pre at sowing means 1.5 lb/acre of dicamba was applied at planting.
Post at V3 means 1.5 lb/acre of dicamba was applied 4 weeks after planting.
Pre and post means 1.5 lb/acre of dicamba was applied at planting and 1.5 lb/acre of dicamba was applied 4 weeks after planting.
% inj means percentage injury on given date.
% GR means percentage growth reduction.
Marestail is one of the major weeds in a crop field. Marestail is effectively controlled by glyphosate, but the development of methods for controlling this common weed with other herbicides is important to minimize opportunities for herbicide tolerance to develop. An analysis was carried out to determine the extent to which this glyphosate tolerant weed could be controlled by applications of dicamba. Marestail (Conyza canadensis) plants of two biotypes, each from a different geographic region, California (CA) and Kentucky (KY), were grown, and treated at 4-6 inch diameter rosette leaf stage with dicamba as described in Example 2 and 3. The results of the study, as shown in Table 7, demonstrated that dicamba was equally effective in controlling both susceptible and tolerant biotypes of marestail from CA and KY. Dicamba was more effective in controlling resistant biotypes at lower application rates than glyphosate. For example, 2100 g/ha of glyphosate was required to obtain about 77% and 91% inhibition of CA and KY resistant biotypes, whereas only 280 g/ha of dicamba was required to obtain about 83% and about 91% control of CA and KY resistant biotypes.
TABLE 7
Control of glyphosate tolerant weeds by dicamba.
% Injury (21 DAT)
MARESTAIL
MARESTAIL
MARESTAIL
MARESTAIL
Rate
(CA)
(CA)
(KY)
(KY)
Formulation
g/ha
Susceptible
Resistant
Susceptible
Resistant
Roundup
840
97.2
55.0
76.7
58.3
WeatherMAX ™
1680
100.0
64.2
97.5
79.2
2100
100.0
76.7
100.0
90.8
Clarity ™
50
68.3
61.7
78.3
78.3
140
82.5
80.8
90.0
88.3
280
85.0
82.5
91.7
90.8
Transgenic seeds having dicamba tolerance are planted in a field that has been treated with glyphosate before planting the transgenic seeds. The field is then treated with a herbicidally effective amount of dicamba before or after planting the seeds to control glyphosate resistant weeds. The herbicidally effective amount of dicamba is such that the growth of glyphosate resistant weeds is controlled, but is not injurious to the planted crop as shown in the examples described herein. Thus, transgenic seeds having dicamba tolerance in combination with an effective amount of dicamba are useful for control of glyphosate resistant weeds. The method may be implemented without delaying planting of the dicamba tolerant crop plants, thus providing a significant advance over the prior art, in which dicamba must be applied sufficiently prior to planting such that the dicamba degrades in the environment sufficiently to avoid injury to crop plants.
As shown in Table 8, dicamba alone was more effective in controlling resistant biotypes at lower application rates than glyphosate. Further, it has unexpectedly been found that dicamba in combination with glyphosate allows control of glyphosate tolerant and susceptible weeds at lower application rates. For example, whereas 200 g/ha of glyphosate was able to control only 6% of marestail (KY resistant biotype) at 18 DAT and 40 g/ha of dicamba was able to control about 52% of the KY biotype at 18 DAT, a 200 g/ha glyphosate and 40 g/ha dicamba mixture was able to control about 79% of the KY biotype at 18 DAT.
In general, any formulation containing dicamba appeared to be more efficacious than glyphosate alone on the resistant biotype. Also, in general, the following trend in effectiveness of glyphosate to dicamba ratio on resistant biotype was found to be true at: 4:1>10:1>20:1>40:1>80:1. The results show that a glyphosate to dicamba mixture ratio of 4:1 containing 200 g/h glyphosate and 50 g/h dicamba provided superior control than either glyphosate or dicamba alone.
TABLE 8
Effect of dicamba and glyphosate for controlling glyphosate resistant weeds.
% Injury
% Injury
(18 DAT)
(30 DAT)
Marestail
Marestail
Marestail
Marestail
CHEMICAL
Rate
Susceptible
Resistant
Susceptible
Resistant
FORMULATION
g/ha
RATIO
(KY)
(KY)
(KY)
(KY)
Roundup
200
86.0
5.8
96.3
0.0
WeatherMAX ™
400
99.7
25.0
100.0
18.3
800
100.0
46.7
100.0
44.2
1600
100.0
59.2
100.0
62.5
Clarity ™
2.5
6.7
10.8
15.8
7.5
5
18.3
25.0
20.8
35.0
10
34.2
35.8
29.2
39.2
20
40.8
45.8
40.0
45.0
40
50.0
52.5
51.7
68.3
80
68.3
69.2
71.7
84.3
100
83.3
75.8
86.3
87.5
200
89.2
83.3
99.3
94.3
Roundup
200 + 2.5
80:1
50.8
20.8
55.8
31.7
WeatherMAX ™ +
400 + 5
80:1
85.8
39.2
97.7
40.8
Clarity ™
800 + 10
80:1
99.7
47.5
100.0
45.0
1600 + 20
80:1
100.0
50.8
100.0
63.3
Roundup
200 + 5
40:1
56.7
28.3
64.2
35.0
WeatherMAX ™ +
400 + 10
40:1
82.5
40.0
94.2
43.3
Clarity ™
800 + 20
40:1
99.3
53.3
100.0
60.8
1600 + 40
40:1
100.0
70.8
100.0
80.8
Roundup
200 + 10
20:1
58.3
38.3
66.7
40.0
WeatherMAX ™ +
400 + 20
20:1
81.7
56.7
93.3
50.0
Clarity ™
800 + 40
20:1
99.0
62.5
100.0
73.3
1600 + 80
20:1
99.7
77.5
100.0
88.3
Roundup
200 + 20
10:1
56.7
52.5
70.8
60.0
WeatherMAX ™ +
400 + 40
10:1
84.2
79.2
93.3
86.3
Clarity ™
800 + 80
10:1
98.7
83.3
100.0
96.8
1600 + 160
10:1
99.7
89.2
100.0
99.3
Roundup
200 + 50
4:1
61.7
79.2
83.5
87.2
WeatherMAX ™ +
400 + 100
4:1
89.2
88.3
99.7
98.7
Clarity ™
800 + 200
4:1
99.7
88.3
100.0
99.3
1600 + 400
4:1
100.0
89.7
100.0
100.0
Methods for producing transgenic seeds having glyphosate tolerance are known in the art and such seeds can be produced by persons of skill in the art by using a polynucleotide encoding glyphosate resistant 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,627,061, 5,633,435, 6,040,497 and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,094,945, WO04074443 and WO04009761, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference. Soybean breeding lines containing the Roundup Ready® trait event 40-3-2 (Padgette et al., 1995) have been produced. Seeds from soybean plant designated as MON19788 have been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-6708.
Glyphosate tolerant plants can also be produced by incorporating polynucleotides encoding glyphosate degrading enzymes such as glyphosate oxidoreductase (GOX, U.S. Pat. No. 5,463,175, herein incorporated by reference), a glyphosate-N-acetyl transferase (GAT, U.S. Patent publication 20030083480, herein incorporated by reference), and a glyphosate decarboxylase (WO05003362; US Patent Application 20040177399, herein incorporated by reference).
Dicamba tolerant plants are disclosed herein. A suitable line from each is crossed and progeny seeds screened with herbicide applications of glyphosate and dicamba to obtain progeny expressing both genes and exhibiting tolerance to both dicamba and glyphosate. Alternatively, coding sequences conferring tolerance to one or both of the herbicides are directly introduced into a given line. Seeds from these plants are used for developing a method for controlling weed resistance development in a field as described below.
Transgenic seeds having dicamba and glyphosate tolerances were tested for their tolerance to dicamba, glyphosate, or both herbicides. Table 9 shows tolerance of transgenic soybeans carrying glyphosate and dicamba tolerance transgenes to glyphosate, dicamba, and glyphosate and dicamba at various stages of plant growth. Injury was not seen on plants when either or both herbicides were applied at pre-emergence stage. Post-emergence treatments of either or both herbicides at V3, R1, and R3-4 showed only little injury.
TABLE 9
Tolerance of transgenic soybeans carrying glyphosate and dicamba tolerance
transgenes to glyphosate, dicamba, and glyphosate and dicamba.
Post-emergence
Pre-emergence
treatment
treatment
V3
R1
R3-4
20
8
7
18
Rate
DAT
DAT
DAT
DAT
gm
% injury
Plant Line
Herbicide Applied
ae/ha
(Average of 4 replications)
Non-transgenic Control
CLARITY
561
99.0
83.8
71.3
85.0
RWMax
841
0.0
81.3
66.3
67.5
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
99.5
93.8
81.3
99.0
RR1+ DMO Line 1
CLARITY
561
0.0
7.0
6.3
4.5
RWMax
841
0.0
3.5
3.5
11.3
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
3.0
4.0
10.0
RR1+ DMO Line 2
CLARITY
561
0.0
5.3
6.3
5.3
RWMax
841
0.0
4.5
4.5
11.7
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
5.0
4.0
8.8
RR1+ DMO Line 3
CLARITY
561
0.0
9.0
8.8
7.5
RWMax
841
0.0
3.5
4.0
11.3
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
4.5
3.5
10.0
RR1+ DMO Line 4
CLARITY
561
0.0
8.5
8.8
3.5
RWMax
841
0.0
3.5
3.5
11.3
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
4.5
4.5
8.8
RR2+ DMO Line 1
CLARITY
561
0.0
8.5
6.3
5.3
RWMax
841
0.0
3.5
3.5
3.0
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
5.0
4.5
5.0
RR2+ DMO Line 2
CLARITY
561
0.0
9.0
6.3
3.0
RWMax
841
0.0
3.5
6.3
3.0
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
9.5
7.0
3.0
RR2+ DMO Line 3
CLARITY
561
0.0
9.5
7.5
3.5
RWMax
841
0.0
3.5
6.3
4.5
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
8.5
3.5
3.3
RR2+ DMO Line 4
CLARITY
561
0.0
5.3
5.8
3.0
RWMax
841
0.0
16.5
17.0
4.0
CLARITY + RWMax
561 + 841
0.0
11.0
3.5
5.3
Transgenic seeds having dicamba and glyphosate tolerance prepared as described above are planted in a field. The field is treated with dicamba and glyphosate before or after planting the seeds using a mixture of dicamba and glyphosate in an effective amount to control weed growth. Typically about a 1× application rate of either herbicide will be effective in controlling weed growth, but the rate may be varied depending upon environmental conditions and the type of weeds being controlled, as is known in the art. The rate of application may also be increased or decreased depending upon the rate of control desired. Generally speaking, increasing the rate of one herbicide will allow a decrease in the rate of the second herbicide in order to obtain the same level of seed control. In specific embodiments, an application of from about 200 to about 1600 g/ha of glyphosate is combined with from about 20 to about 400 g/ha of dicamba.
A desired application rate may be optimized in any particular environment or in the context of a particular weed can be determined using the experimental layout of Example 9 with the different formulation rates described therein. In addition to desired level of weed control, the herbicide level is selected to avoid using more herbicide than is needed on the one hand, and to avoid poor weed control that could lead to herbicide tolerant plants. Over application of herbicides could also damage herbicide tolerant crop. As shown in Example 9 above however, combining optimized applications of these herbicides provides significant levels of control of even herbicide tolerant weeds, and thus represents a major advance in the art.
The procedures in Examples 9 and 10 are applied to develop a method for controlling weed growth in a crop-growing environment involving planting a transgenic seed in a field containing a weed or a seed thereof and treating the field in a single pass though the field. The treatment comprises a herbicidally effective amount of dicamba, glyphosate, or a mixture thereof, administered contemporaneously with the planting of the seed. The planting, treating, and growing of the transgenic seed are achieved by standard agricultural methods.
Such a method of planting the transgenic seed and treating the transgenic seed in one pass eliminates the need for a farmer to make multiple passes through the field, including once for planting and once for spraying. The technique therefore reduces fuel and wear-tear costs to farmers.
Herbicide drift and contamination of herbicide delivery equipment is a serious concern in agriculture and can injure non-target crops resulting in losses to farmers. However, some level of drift is often inevitable due to changing environmental conditions such as wind and the proximity of growing fields. Further, it is often difficult and expensive to eliminate all residual levels of a herbicide in a tank following herbicide application and residual herbicides often result in inadvertent injury to crops. Often several rinses of herbicide delivery equipment are required before it can be used for another herbicide, which wastes water and cleaning chemicals.
As herbicides such as 2,4-D and MCPA are post-emergent herbicides for some crops, but can cause serious damage to non-target crops, residual contamination with these herbicides is of particular concern. A transgenic crop tolerant to at least low levels of these herbicides would therefore be of significant value in managing injuries due to spray drift and contamination of herbicide equipment. This could also reduce the extent of equipment washing needed for herbicide delivery equipment.
An analysis was therefore carried out to determine whether soybean plants having DMO-encoding polynucleotide could deactivate other auxin-like herbicides in addition to dicamba, including 2,4-D and MCPA. This was carried out by applying various concentrations of commercially available formulations of other auxin-like herbicides such as 2,4-D (Helena, Collierville, Tenn.), MCPA (Agriliance, St. Paul, Minn), triclopyr (GARLON 3A; Dow Elanco, Indianapolis, Ind.), clopyralid (STINGER; Dow Elanco, Indianapolis, Ind.), picloram (TORDON 22K; Dow Elanco, Indianapolis, Ind.), or Banvel or CLARITY (BASF, Raleigh, N.C.) to DMO containing plant tissues or plants.
Transgenic soybean plants were obtained by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of soybean explants with a DMO-encoding polynucleotide as described above for the events designated Events 1-4. A non-transgenic line was used as a control. Non-transgenic and transgenic soybean seeds were planted into 3.5-inch square plastic pots containing Redi-earth™ (Scotts-Sierra Horticultural Products Co., Marysville, Ohio). The pots were placed on capillary matting in 35 inch×60 inch fiberglass watering trays for overhead and/or sub-irrigation for the duration of the test period so as to maintain optimum soil moisture for plant growth. The pots were fertilized with Osmocote (14-14-14 slow release; Scotts-Sierra Horticultural Products Co., Marysville, Ohio) at the rate of 100 gm/cu.ft. to sustain plant growth for the duration of greenhouse trials, and grown in greenhouses at 27°/21° C. day/night temperature, with relative humidity between 25%-75% to simulate warm season growing conditions of late spring. A 14 h minimum photoperiod was provided with supplemental light at about 600 μE as needed.
All herbicide applications were made with the track sprayer using a Teejet 9501E flat fan nozzle (Spraying Systems Co, Wheaton, Ill.) with air pressure set at a minimum of 24 psi (165 kpa). The spray nozzle was kept at a height of about 16 inches above the top of plant material for spraying. The spray volume was 10 gallons per acre or 93 liters per hectare. Applications were made when plants had reached V-3 stage. All trials were established in a randomized block design (randomized by rate) with 4 to 6 replications of each treatment depending on plant quality, availability and to account for any environmental variability that may have occurred within the confines of each greenhouse.
All treated plants in greenhouse trials were visually assessed at about 4, 14, 18, and 21 days after treatment (DAT) for injury on a scale of 0 to 100 percent relative to untreated control plants, with zero representing “no” injury and 100% representing “complete” injury or death. Data were collected using a palm top computer and analyzed using standard statistical methods. The results shown in Table 10 clearly indicate tolerance of transgenic soybean to other auxin-like herbicides such as 2,4-D and MCPA relative to the non-transgenic line.
TABLE 10
Percentage injury relative to un-treated controls at 25 DAT
post-V3 applications of different auxin-like herbicides to
non-transgenic or transgenic soybean plants.*
Herbicide
Plant/trial
280
561
1120
% injury at shown
rates (g ae/ha**)
at 21 DAT
Dicamba (Clarity)
Non-transgenic
100
100
Event 1
0.0
1.2
Event 2
0.0
1.7
Event 3
0.0
0.7
Event 4
0.0
1.5
Dicamba (Banvel)
Non-transgenic
100.0
100.0
Event 1
0.0
1.5
Event 2
0.0
0.7
Event 3
0.0
0.5
Event 4
0.0
1.3
2,4-D
Non-transgenic
86.8
100.0
100.0
Event 1
58.3
75.0
100.0
Event 2
64.2
94.7
100.0
Event 3
40.0
85.0
100.0
Event 4
45.8
84.2
100.0
MCPA
Non-transgenic
93.0
98.3
100.0
Event 1
72.5
99.3
100.0
Event 2
55.0
95.0
99.7
Event 3
55.0
95.8
100.0
Event 4
88.3
98.8
100.0
LSD
16.3
10.6
3.7
% injury shown
rates (g ae/ha**)
at 14 DAT
Triclopyr
Non-transgenic
86.7
97.3
98.7
Event 1
88.3
95.7
99.3
Event 2
86.7
98.7
99.3
Event 3
86.7
94.0
96.3
Event 4
90.8
98.0
99.2
Clopyralid
Non-transgenic
99.3
100.0
100.0
Event 1
99.2
100.0
100.0
Event 2
98.2
99.7
100.0
Event 3
99.3
100.0
100.0
Event 4
99.7
100.0
100.0
Picloram
Non-transgenic
99.3
100.0
100.0
Event 1
99.7
100.0
100.0
Event 2
99.3
100.0
100.0
Event 3
99.3
99.7
100.0
Event 4
99.3
100.0
100.0
% injury at shown
rates (g ae/ha**)
at 21 DAT
LSD
2.9
1.8
1.4
*The % injury was represented as ANOVA mean comparisons.
**grams of active acid equivalent/hectare
Another auxin-like herbicide Butyrac 200 (2,4-DB; Albaugh) was also tested on transgenic soybean plants carrying a DMO gene for testing the plants tolerance to it. The herbicide was applied as a post-emergence treatment at three application rates on two transgenic soybean events and compared with a non-transgenic line for total crop injury across all three application rates: 280 g/ha (0.25 lb/a), 561 g/ha (0.5 lb/a) and 841 g/ha (0.75 lb/a) (see Table 11). Both transgenic soybean lines showed low level of tolerance to 2,4-DB. This example shows that dicamba tolerant soybean is also tolerant to low levels of 2,4-DB and should be useful in managing damage from spray drift from the same or neighboring fields to prevent crop loses, and would exhibit tolerance to residual levels of 2,4-DB following incomplete washing of herbicide delivery equipment.
TABLE 11
Percentage injury relative to the untreated control at 16 DAT by the
application of 2,4-DB to non-transgenic or transgenic soybean plants.
% injury at shown rates
(g ae/ha) at 16 DAT
Herbicide
Plant
280
561
1120
2,4-DB (Butyrac 200)
Non-transgenic
59.2
70.0
79.2
NE3001
462-1-21
25.0
43.3
75.8
469-13-19
18.3
37.5
70.0
This example shows that transgenic soybean plants exhibit tolerance to other auxin-like herbicides, indicating a likely common deactivation mechanism for dicamba and other auxin-like herbicides such as 2,4-D and MCPA. In case of triclopyr, clopyralid, and picloram, the application rate of 280 g ae/ha appeared too stringent in this study and thus lower concentrations may be desired in most settings to reduce plant damage. Thus, a DMO polynucleotide containing soybean that is tolerant to dicamba is also tolerant to low levels of 2,4-D and MCPA and should prevent or minimize damage from spray drift from same or neighboring fields to prevent crop loses, and would exhibit tolerance to residual levels of these herbicides following incomplete washing of herbicide delivery equipment. The herbicide delivery equipment could include a tank, container, hose, strainer, boom, sprayer, nozzle, pump, and accessories such as coupling, elbows, shanks, and valves. The delivery equipment is operable manually or mechanically for example on a farm vehicle, airplane, and helicopter, among others.
To test the use of a DMO gene in providing dicamba tolerance to monocots, transgenic corn plants were produced that comprise a DMO gene as disclosed above with or without a transit peptide (e.g. Ta Waxy, CTP1, CTP2synthetic, CTP4) under the control of plant gene expression elements such as a promoter (e.g. PC1SV, e35S, OsAct1, OsTPI, OsAct15), and an intron (e.g. OsAct1, OsAct15, OsTPI, ZmHSP70). This expression element contains first intron and flanking UTR exon sequences from the rice actin 1 gene and includes 12 nt of exon 1 at the 5′ end and 7 nt of exon 2 at the 3′ end), and a 3′UTR (e.g. TaHsp17). Nucleotide sequences/and or patent references for various expression elements are disclosed in co-pending application U.S. Ser. No. 60/891,675.
Transgenic corn plants were produced by the methods known in the art such as WO9506722 and US patent application 20040244075. Transgenic corn events having single copy were evaluated for dicamba tolerance at a single location replicated trial. Six events from each of the six constructs were used. The experimental design was as follows: rows/entry: 1; treatment: 0.5 lb/a of dicamba at V3 stage followed by 1 lb/a of dicamba at V8 stage (Clarity®, BASF, Raleigh, N.C.); replications: 2; row spacing: 30 inches; plot length: minimum 20 feet; plant density: about 30 plants/17.5 ft.; alleys: 2.5 feet. The entire plot was fertilized uniformly to obtain an agronomically acceptable crop. A soil insecticide such as Force® 3G (Syngenta Crop Protection, Greensboro, N.C., USA) at 5 oz. per 1000 ft. of row for control of corn rootworm was applied at planting time. If black cutworm infestation was observed, POUNCE® 3.2EC at 4 to 8 oz. per acre rate (FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa.) was used. In addition, an insecticide spray program was used to control all above ground lepidopteran pests including European corn borer, corn earworm, and fall armyworm. POUNCE® 3.2EC at 4 to 8 oz. per acre was applied every 3 weeks to control lepidopteran pests; about 4 applications were made. The plot was kept weed free with a pre-emergence application of a herbicide such as Harness® Xtra 5.6 L (Monsanto, St. Louis, Mo.) and Degree Xtra® (Monsanto, St. Louis, Mo.). If weed escapes were observed in the untreated check, they were controlled by hand weeding or a post-emergence application of PERMIT (Monsanto, St. Louis, Mo.) or BUCTRIL® (Bayer, Research Triangle Park, NC) over the entire trial.
Corn inbred lines transformed with DNA constructs comprising a DMO transgene were tested for dicamba tolerance by measuring brace root injury when treated with 0.5 lb/a of dicamba at V3 stage followed by 1 lb/a of dicamba at V8 stage. Brace root injury was evaluated visually by counting the number of plants in a row showing an “atypical” morphology of having the brace roots fused as compared to a typical morphology of “finger-like” structure. As shown in Table 12, corn plants transformed with DNA constructs coding for a DMO without linking it to a CTP (pMON73699, pMON73704) showed higher level of brace root injury, i.e. lower level of protection upon dicamba treatment. The constructs coding for a DMO linked to a CTP (pMON73716, pMON73700, pMON73715, pMON73703) showed lower level of brace root injury, i.e. higher level of protection upon dicamba treatment.
TABLE 12
Percentage brace root injury as a measure of dicamba tolerance
exhibited by transgenic corn plants transformed with DNA
constructs carrying DMO.
Brace
Inbreds/
root
Constructs
Details
injury
01CSI6
Susceptible inbred to dicamba
95.4
LH244
Resistant inbred to dicamba
93.8
pMON73699
PC1SV/I-OsAct1/DMO-Wmc/TaHsp17
93.2
pMON73704
e35S/I-OsAct1/DMO-Wmc/TaHsp17
91.3
pMON73716
PC1SV/I-OsAct1/TaWaxy/DMO-Wmc/TaHsp17
78.8
pMON73700
PC1SV/I-OsAct1/CTP1/DMO-Wmc/TaHsp17
74.4
pMON73715
PC1SV/I-OsAct1/CTP2syn/DMO-Wmc/TaHsp17
68.2
pMON73703
e35S/I-OsAct1/CTP1/DMO-Wmc/TaHsp17
68.8
To test the use of DMO gene in providing dicamba tolerance to cotton, transgenic cotton plants were produced. Several DNA constructs carrying a DMO coding region as disclosed herein with a transit peptide (e.g., PsRbcS CTP, CTP1, CTP2) under the control of plant gene expression elements such as a promoter (e.g. PC1SV, FMV, or e35S), and a 3′UTR (e.g. E6; Accession # U30508) were produced and transformed into cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) as follows. Nucleotide sequences/and or patent references for various expression elements are disclosed in co-pending application U.S. Ser. No. 60/891,675. Media used are noted in Table 13.
Cotton transformation was performed, for instance as described according to U.S. Patent Application Publication 20040087030, via an embryogenic approach. Explants of cotton cv Coker 130 were grown in vitro and with a liquid suspension of Agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying a DNA construct of interest, using selection on kanamycin containing media. Putative transgenic plantlets were then transferred to soil to obtain mature cotton plants. The transgenic nature of transformants was confirmed by DNA testing.
TABLE 13
Composition of various media used for cotton transformation.
Amount/L
Components
Glucose
Sucrose
UMO
TRP+
SHSU
MS basal salts
4.33
g
4.33
g
4.33
g
4.33
g
—
(Phytotech.)
Gamborg's B5 vitamins
2
ml
2
ml
2
ml
2
ml
—
(Phytotech) (500X)
2,4-D (1 mg/ml)
0.1
ml
0.1
ml
—
—
Stewart and Hsu
—
—
—
—
100
ml
majors (10X)
Stewart and Hsu
—
—
—
—
10
ml
minors (100X)
Steward and Hsu
—
—
—
—
10
ml
organic (100X)
Kinetin (0.5 mg/ml)
1
ml
1
ml
—
—
—
Chelated iron (100X)
—
—
—
—
1.5
ml
Glucose
30
g
30
g
30
g
30
g
5
g
Potassium nitrate
—
—
—
1.9
g
—
Casein hydrolysate
—
—
—
0.1
g
—
pH
5.8
5.8
5.8
5.8
6.8
Phytagel (Sigma)
2.5
g
2.5
g
—
—
—
Gelrite (Kelco)
—
—
3.5
g
3.5
g
2.2
g
Carbenicillin
1.7
ml
1.7
ml
1.7
ml
1.7
ml
—
(250 mg/ml)
Cefotaxime (100 mg/ml)
1
ml
1
ml
1
ml
1
ml
—
Benlate (50 mg/ml)
—
—
—
1
ml
1
ml
Kanamycin (50 mg/ml)
0.8-1.0
ml
0.8-1.0
ml
1
ml
—
—
Sucrose
—
0.1
g
—
—
—
Ascorbic acid
—
—
100
mg
Transformed cotton plants that comprise a DNA construct, i.e, each comprising a different combination of a DMO coding region with a transit peptide, a promoter, and a 3′UTR, were treated with dicamba (Clarity®, BASF, Raleigh, N.C.) as a post-emergent treatment at V4-5 growth stage at the rate of 561 g ae/ha (0.5 lb/a) and found to be tolerant whereas untransformed cotton plants showed an injury rate of 79% to 86%. Transgenic plants showing more than 95% tolerance (equal to less than 5% injury) were selected for further studies. Transgenic plants were also tolerant to a subsequent post-emergent treatment of dicamba. For example, the plants that were treated with 0.5 lb/acre of dicamba at V3-4 stage followed by either 1 or 2 lb/acre of dicamba at V5 or later stages were still tolerant to dicamba. R1 transgenic seeds and plants were also subjected to pre-emergence or pre-emergence and post-emergence dicamba treatment and found to be tolerant. This example shows that a DMO gene can provide dicamba tolerance to cotton at various stages of growth thus enabling application of dicamba at various stages to obtain effective weed control.
All of the compositions and/or methods disclosed and claimed herein can be made and executed without undue experimentation in light of the present disclosure. While the compositions and methods of this invention have been described in terms of preferred embodiments, it will be apparent to those of skill in the art that variations may be applied to the compositions and/or methods and in the steps or in the sequence of steps of the method described herein without departing from the concept, spirit and scope of the invention. More specifically, it will be apparent that certain agents that are both chemically and physiologically related may be substituted for the agents described herein while the same or similar results would be achieved. All such similar substitutes and modifications apparent to those skilled in the art are deemed to be within the spirit, scope and concept of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
The references listed below are incorporated herein by reference to the extent that they supplement, explain, provide a background for, or teach methodology, techniques, and/or compositions employed herein.
Feng, Paul C. C., Brinker, Ronald J.
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| 10448608, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067812 |
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| 10463011, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068162 |
| 10463012, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01069688 |
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| 10477818, | May 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 5PTJB40 |
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| 10477822, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01069686 |
| 10477823, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01069720 |
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| 10485213, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068968 |
| 10492450, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01064752 |
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| 10492452, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067646 |
| 10492453, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072254 |
| 10492454, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072256 |
| 10499601, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068356 |
| 10499602, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067553 |
| 10499603, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068207 |
| 10506786, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067789 |
| 10506787, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01072220 |
| 10506788, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01072292 |
| 10506789, | Dec 04 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 61381330 |
| 10512239, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072273 |
| 10512240, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01072228 |
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| 10512242, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01077436 |
| 10517255, | Aug 06 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 62391708 |
| 10517259, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068824 |
| 10524446, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072245 |
| 10531629, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01072223 |
| 10542721, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072231 |
| 10548273, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 87120510 |
| 10548274, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 83262718 |
| 10548284, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072294 |
| 10548285, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067703 |
| 10548286, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068171 |
| 10548287, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 86411138 |
| 10548288, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 80372800 |
| 10548289, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 82290447 |
| 10548290, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 89031941 |
| 10555480, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068350 |
| 10555481, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068364 |
| 10555482, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068427 |
| 10555483, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067598 |
| 10555484, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068903 |
| 10555485, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073532 |
| 10555486, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068910 |
| 10555487, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067694 |
| 10555488, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067714 |
| 10555489, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068972 |
| 10555490, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 85370909 |
| 10555491, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 83072718 |
| 10555492, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 81430038 |
| 10561089, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 84060345 |
| 10561090, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 86370345 |
| 10561098, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067649 |
| 10561099, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068352 |
| 10561100, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067742 |
| 10561101, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068184 |
| 10561102, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068182 |
| 10561103, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073501 |
| 10561104, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072234 |
| 10561105, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072235 |
| 10561106, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068466 |
| 10561107, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068807 |
| 10561108, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 80431932 |
| 10561109, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 82042815 |
| 10568284, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 87161804 |
| 10568290, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068219 |
| 10568291, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067741 |
| 10568292, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 80181322 |
| 10568293, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar AR 86112649 |
| 10568294, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 82440038 |
| 10575489, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067545 |
| 10575490, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067547 |
| 10575491, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01072289 |
| 10575492, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068915 |
| 10575493, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067819 |
| 10582678, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072239 |
| 10582679, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072243 |
| 10582686, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01064580 |
| 10582687, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068359 |
| 10582688, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067543 |
| 10582689, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067573 |
| 10582690, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067790 |
| 10602689, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068908 |
| 10602690, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068227 |
| 10602691, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072253 |
| 10602692, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072252 |
| 10602693, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 81302732 |
| 10602704, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068313 |
| 10602705, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068821 |
| 10602706, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01077437 |
| 10602707, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 85442619 |
| 10602708, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 82370721 |
| 10602709, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 86360847 |
| 10602710, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 89282206 |
| 10609883, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 82340103 |
| 10609888, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068346 |
| 10609889, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 89001711 |
| 10617080, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc. | Soybean cultivar 87352527 |
| 10617089, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01067827 |
| 10617090, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068163 |
| 10617091, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc. | Soybean cultivar 86331141 |
| 10617092, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 80411617 |
| 10624285, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068376 |
| 10624286, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072276 |
| 10624287, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072275 |
| 10624288, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 85061635 |
| 10624302, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072280 |
| 10624303, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072279 |
| 10624304, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068381 |
| 10624305, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 85161422 |
| 10631486, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068187 |
| 10631487, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 83240828 |
| 10631499, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072291 |
| 10631500, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067788 |
| 10631501, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067793 |
| 10631502, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067840 |
| 10631503, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067814 |
| 10631504, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01072295 |
| 10631505, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01069676 |
| 10631506, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068838 |
| 10631507, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068485 |
| 10631508, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068228 |
| 10631509, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067807 |
| 10631512, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc. | Soybean cultivar 85322536 |
| 10631513, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 87181312 |
| 10631514, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 80131402 |
| 10638686, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 84161023 |
| 10638687, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 88103087 |
| 10638707, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01067639 |
| 10638708, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01068325 |
| 10638709, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068191 |
| 10638710, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068195 |
| 10638713, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 85220103 |
| 10638714, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 84062517 |
| 10645898, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068192 |
| 10660292, | Aug 24 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068157 |
| 10660293, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01077434 |
| 10660294, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLC | Soybean variety 01077435 |
| 10660295, | Jun 05 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 86072029 |
| 10660296, | Jun 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 84241941 |
| 10667484, | Jun 04 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc. | Soybean cultivar 82322805 |
| 10687501, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068438 |
| 10687502, | Aug 23 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068433 |
| 10687503, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01068213 |
| 10743491, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01077432 |
| 10743492, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01077433 |
| 10743493, | Aug 27 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01077438 |
| 10785950, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 86190345 |
| 10813335, | Jun 06 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC; Stine Seed Farm, Inc | Soybean cultivar 80261309 |
| 10827714, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073443 |
| 10827715, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01077799 |
| 10842116, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072832 |
| 10842117, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072842 |
| 10849300, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073359 |
| 10849301, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072784 |
| 10856507, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073444 |
| 10856508, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073445 |
| 10856509, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073199 |
| 10863708, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073439 |
| 10863709, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072789 |
| 10863710, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072819 |
| 10863711, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073279 |
| 10863712, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073281 |
| 10869452, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072767 |
| 10869453, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072813 |
| 10869454, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073329 |
| 10874078, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072817 |
| 10881073, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072782 |
| 10881074, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072802 |
| 10888063, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072800 |
| 10897864, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073453 |
| 10897868, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072327 |
| 10897869, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072333 |
| 10897870, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072322 |
| 10905071, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072744 |
| 10905072, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073330 |
| 10905073, | Aug 01 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072883 |
| 10905074, | Aug 01 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072906 |
| 10905075, | Aug 01 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073059 |
| 10905079, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073335 |
| 10905080, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072355 |
| 10905081, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072329 |
| 10912270, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072737 |
| 10912271, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072822 |
| 10912273, | Aug 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073355 |
| 10918050, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072791 |
| 10918051, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072804 |
| 10918052, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073365 |
| 10918053, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073354 |
| 10918054, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073353 |
| 10918055, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073472 |
| 10918056, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01077815 |
| 10918065, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072343 |
| 10925235, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072810 |
| 10925236, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072823 |
| 10925237, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073288 |
| 10925238, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073320 |
| 10925239, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073452 |
| 10925240, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073455 |
| 10925241, | Aug 01 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072974 |
| 10932428, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072749 |
| 10932429, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073265 |
| 10932430, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073203 |
| 10939643, | Jul 29 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072768 |
| 10939644, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073461 |
| 10939645, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073480 |
| 10939646, | Jul 30 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073479 |
| 10939647, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072860 |
| 10939648, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072899 |
| 10939652, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072350 |
| 10945397, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073506 |
| 10945398, | Aug 15 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073160 |
| 10952391, | Aug 15 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073150 |
| 10952392, | Aug 15 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073151 |
| 10952393, | Aug 15 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073169 |
| 10959389, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073503 |
| 10959390, | Aug 15 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073069 |
| 10973193, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072864 |
| 10973194, | Jul 31 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072867 |
| 10973195, | Aug 07 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073325 |
| 10973196, | Aug 16 2019 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01073237 |
| 10973198, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072340 |
| 10973199, | Aug 22 2018 | MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC | Soybean variety 01072341 |
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