Soybean event MON89788 and methods for detection thereof

• US 8,053,184 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC (Bayer AG)
• Original Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC (Bayer AG)
• Inventors: Rinehart, Jennifer, Taylor, Nancy, Dickinson, Ellen, Malven, Marianne
• Primary Examiner(s): Horlick; Kenneth R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tung; Joyce
• Application Number:
  US12/575,352
• Publication Number:
  US 20100099859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 435/91.2, 435/6, 536/22.1, 536/24.33
• US Class Current: 435/6
• CPC Class Codes: A01H 6/542 Glycine max [soybean]
• CPC Class Codes: A01N 57/20 containing acyclic or cycloaliphatic radicals
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 15/821 Non-antibiotic resistance markers, e.g. morphogenetic, metabolic markers
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 15/8275 Glyphosate
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 15/8286 for insect resistance
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/146 Genetically Modified [GMO] plants, e.g. transgenic plants

Abstract

The present invention provides for soybean plant and seed comprising transformation event MON89788 and DNA molecules unique to these events. The invention also provides methods for detecting the presence of these DNA molecules in a sample.

Claims

1. A nucleic acid molecule comprising a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:

1, SEQ ID NO;

2, SEQ ID NO;

3 and SEQ ID NO;

4.

5. The nucleic acid molecule of claim 1, comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:

1.

6. The nucleic acid molecule of claim 1, comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:

2.

9. The nucleic acid molecule of claim 1, comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:

3.

10. The nucleic acid molecule of claim 1, comprising the sequence of SEQ ID NO:

4.

2. A pair of DNA molecules, wherein a first molecule in said pair comprises at least 11 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:

3, or its full complement wherein said pair is capable of producing an amplicon diagnostic for event MON89788, wherein said amplicon comprises SEQ ID NO;

1.

3. A pair of DNA molecules, wherein a first molecule in said pair comprises at least 11 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:

4, or its full complement wherein said pair is capable of producing an amplicon diagnostic for event MON89788, wherein said amplicon comprises SEQ ID NO;

2.

4. A DNA detection kit specific for event MON89788 comprising:

(a) a pair of DNA molecules, wherein a first molecule in said pair comprises at least 11 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO;

3, or a sequence fully complementary thereto wherein said pair is capable of producing an amplicon diagnostic for event MON89788, wherein said amplicon comprises SEQ ID NO;

1;

or

(b) a pair of DNA molecules, wherein a first molecule in said pair comprises at least 11 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO;

4, or a sequence fully complementary thereto wherein said pair is capable of producing an amplicon diagnostic for event MON89788, wherein said amplicon comprises SEQ ID NO;

2.

7. The DNA detection kit of claim 4, wherein the first molecule comprises at least 11 or more contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:

3, or a sequence fully complementary thereto.

8. The DNA detection kit of claim 4, wherein the first molecule comprises at least 11 or more contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO:

4, or a sequence fully complementary thereto.