Appeal No. 2003-0936
Application No. 09/532,806
constructs (Spec., pp. 61-108) and various art recognized methods
suitable for plant transformation, growth, stabilization,
regeneration, seed production, and breeding (Spec., pp. 69-74),
including liberal citation of the prior art and discussion of the
state of the art. Following the aforementioned teachings, the
specification introduces the examples presented as follows (Spec.,
pp. 110-111)(emphasis added):
The following examples are included to demonstrate
preferred embodiments of the invention. It should
be appreciated by those of skill in the art that the
techniques disclosed in the examples which follow
represent techniques discovered by the inventor to
function well in the practice of the invention, and
thus can be considered to constitute preferred modes
for its practice. 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. . . . .
. . . . .
The current inventors have demonstrated the utility
of a novel maize promoter, designated Zea Mays Glycine
Rich Protein (ZMGRP) promoter, in conjunction with an intron
in transgenic maize. The ZMGRP promoter comes from a gene
(Genbank Acc# GI/22312) that is induced in response to
water stress and wounding. The ZMGRP mRNA has been shown
to accumulate in epidermal cells upon induction (Gomez
et al., 1988). The ZMGRP promoter was isolated from a
maize B73 genomic library and fused to the gus reporter
gene, both with and without a modified intron from the rice
Act2 gene (see Example 5).
17
Page: Previous 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007