| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide transgenic soybean plants exhibiting commercially acceptable tolerance to applications of dicamba herbicide.SOLUTION: The invention provides a transgenic soybean event MON87708 transformed to have dicamba monooxygenase (DMO), an enzyme cloned from Stenotrophomonas maltophilia commonly found in soil rhizosphere. Dicamba monooxygenase catalyzes deactivation of dicamba to a non-herbicidal compound, 3,5-dichlorosalicylic acid, via O-demethylation reaction. Also provided are polynucleotide specific for the event MON87708, as well as plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON87708. |
