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Title: Metal resistant plants and phytoremediation of environmental contamination

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1176245
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The present disclosure provides a method of producing transgenic plants which are resistant to at least one metal ion by transforming the plant with a recombinant DNA comprising a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial arsenic reductase under the control of a plant expressible promoter, and a nucleic acid encoding a nucleotide sequence encoding a phytochelatin biosynthetic enzyme under the control of a plant expressible promoter. The invention also relates a method of phytoremediation of a contaminated site by growing in the site a transgenic plant expressing a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial arsenate reductase and a nucleic acid encoding a phytochelatin biosynthetic enzyme.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG07-96ER20257
Assignee:
The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (Athens, GA)
Patent Number(s):
7,700,827
Application Number:
10/450,731
OSTI ID:
1176245
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2001 Dec 13
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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