Homolog

Homolog. Shall mean DNA which encodes a protein whereby the protein is more than 50% similar to a protein encoded by Monsanto DNA Information, as determined using a global alignment across the entire length of the two proteins with the GCG GAP program configured with default parameters (matrix = Blossum62, Gap Creation Penalty = 8, Gap Extension Penalty = 2) and whereby the Homolog and the Monsanto DNA Information confers substantially... the identical trait using standard transgene technologies, including but not limited to over-expression, antisense or knockout technologies. As an example of "substantially the identical trait," cold tolerance of 2 degrees centigrade should be considered to be substantially the identical trait as cold tolerance of 10 degrees centigrade, but not considered the substantially identical trait as freeze tolerance 2 (below 0 degrees centigrade) or heat tolerance (above 28 degrees centigrade). View More