Banana

Summary

Banana is the first of the particular monocot plants presented in this section. Some of the patents discussed here refer to the genus Musa, to which banana and plantain belong.

The inventions assigned to Texas A&M University disclose transformation of a wounded meristematic tissue from a Musa plant with A. tumefaciens carrying an engineered T-DNA plasmid. Embryogenic material of banana transformed with Agrobacterium containing a gene of interest is disclosed by a United States patent and a European application assigned to Zeneca & DNA Plant Technology Corp.

The most limiting factors in the claims of these inventions are:

• the use of a wounded meristematic tissue of a Musa plant (Texas A & M University),
• the additional application of microbombardment to the already wounded meristematic Musa tissue (claimed in the Australian and European patents granted to Texas A & M University) and
• the use of embryogenic material of banana (Australian patent granted to Syngenta and DNA Plant Technology Corporation) and embryogenic material from banana inflorescences (United States patent granted to Zeneca & DNA Plant Technology Corp.).

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