GEN SYNTHETIC CRTI AND ITS USE IN A METHOD OF SELECTION OF ALGAE RESISTANT TO HERBICIDES (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

The invention describes a gene construct comprising the sequence of a synthetic CRTI gene of bacterial origin encoding an enzyme of the carotenoid synthesis pathway, phytoene desaturase. The gene construct can be used in methods of selection of herbicide-resistant transformants since the phytoene desaturase enzyme encoded in the construction, unlike that of algae and plants, is not sensitive to bleaching herbicides, which makes the construction a marker for selecting transformed algal cells using a bleaching herbicide as a selection agent. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)