	US 12,173,301 B2
	Weed control methods and related compositions and plants
Richard Dale, Bracknell (GB); Shujie Dong, Durham, NC (US); David Brocklehurst, Bracknell (GB); Anthea Karin Batchelor, Bracknell (GB); Marta Andreia Hortes Simoes, Bracknell (GB); and Irene Gonzalez Thuillier, Bracknell (GB)
Assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel (CH)
Appl. No. 17/771,075
Filed by Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel (CH)
PCT Filed Oct. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/057305 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 22, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/086775, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/929,453, filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0403406 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. C12N 15/82 (2006.01); A01N 43/86 (2006.01); A01N 43/90 (2006.01); C12N 9/16 (2006.01)

CPC C12N 15/8274 (2013.01) [A01N 43/86 (2013.01); A01N 43/90 (2013.01); C12N 9/16 (2013.01); C12Y 301/02014 (2013.01)]

18 Claims

1. A method of selectively controlling weeds at a locus comprising modified crop plants and weeds, the method comprising:

applying to the locus a weed-controlling amount of a pesticide composition comprising a FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase-inhibiting herbicide, wherein the modified crop plants comprise a recombinant polynucleotide encoding a modified FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase that provides the modified crop plant with tolerance against the FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase-inhibiting herbicide, wherein the FatA acyl-ACP thioesterase has at least 70% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOS: 1-7 and comprises at least one amino acid substitution corresponding to R176A of SEQ ID NO: 1.