Dear all

research  by Andreas and Ruth identified the granted patent as attached from ENZA. It took me several readings, despite it is a short text an just one claim.

to me it looks like an interesting case:

different methods were applied for different plant species:

* genetic engineering (RNAi) on potato and tomato * screening a library for sponteous mutations (caused by transposons) in Petunia * exposing plants to the plant disease in tobacco

Finally, there is only one claim, covering all solonaceae plants (especially potato, tomato and petunia) with the respective gene function, no matter which method was used.

I just consider t use this case in my presentation at the German ministry and I am happy to receive your comments.

Christoph