Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance to bacteria,
plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include
nucleic acid molecules encoding herbicide resistance or tolerance
polypeptides, vectors comprising those nucleic acid molecules, and host
cells comprising the vectors. The nucleotide sequences of the invention
can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation
and in organisms, including microorganisms and plants. Compositions also
comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds.
In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid
molecules comprising the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1 or
14, a nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ
ID NO:2, the herbicide resistance nucleotide sequence deposited in a
bacterial host as Accession Nos. NRRL B-30931, as well as variants and
fragments thereof.