NOVELTY - A DNA molecule comprising polynucleotide molecule comprising (a) 20 base pair sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2) fully defined in specification, or 584 and 645 base pair sequence (SEQ ID NO: 3 and 4) fully defined in specification, (b) sequence of 15 contiguous nucleotides at position 565-584 of SEQ ID NO: 3, (c) sequence of at least 11 contiguous nucleotides at position 626-645 of SEQ ID NO: 4, or (d) sequence complementary to the above mentioned sequence of (a), (b) and (c), is new.    USE - The DNA molecule is useful for producing transgenic rice event 17053 and rice plant, seed, cell, or plant part, preferably pollen, ovule, pod, flower, root tissue, stem tissue, or leaf tissue derived from transgenic rice event 17053, and commodity products chosen from whole or processed rice seeds, animal feed, oil, meal, flour, flakes, bran, puffed rice, milk, cheese, paper, cream, wine, alcohol, biomass, and fuel products, detecting presence of transgenic rice event 17053 in DNA molecule, and producing polynucleotide probe diagnostic for detecting presence of event, where the plant comprising transgenic rice event treated with glyphosate herbicide is resistant to weeds and herbicide (all claimed). Can also be used to produce stress resistant and disease resistant plants.    ADVANTAGE - The rice plant has high seed quality and is nutritious.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are included for the following:    (1) polynucleotide probe for presence of event 17053, comprising appropriate length to bind to sequence of at least 11 contiguous nucleotides of SEQ ID NO: 1 and 2 or their complements;    (2) pair of DNA molecule, comprising first and second DNA molecule, where DNA molecule comprises 584 base pair sequence (SEQ ID NO: 6) fully defined in specification, or their complements to function as DNA primers in an amplification reaction together with template from rice event 17053 to produce amplicon diagnostic for rice event 17053 in sample;    (3) method of detecting presence of DNA molecule from rice event 17053, involves contacting DNA sample with above-mentioned DNA molecule, performing an amplification reaction sufficient to produce an amplicon comprising the above-mentioned polynucleotide, and detecting DNA amplicon, where detection of DNA amplicon is diagnostic for the presence of DNA molecule from rice event 17053 in DNA sample;    (4) method of detecting presence of DNA molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence chosen from SEQ ID NO: 3 or 4 in sample, involves contacting sample with DNA probe comprising polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and SEQ ID NO: 2, and their complements, where DNA probe hybridizes under stringent hybridization conditions with DNA molecule comprising nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or 4 and does not hybridize under stringent hybridization conditions with DNA molecule not comprising nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3 or 4, subjecting sample and DNA probe to stringent hybridization conditions, and detecting hybridization of DNA probe to DNA molecule;    (5) DNA detection kit comprising at least one DNA molecule having nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 and their complements to function as DNA primer or probe specific for detecting presence of DNA from rice event 17053, where detection of DNA is diagnostic for presence of rice event 17053 in sample;    (6) rice plant or their seed, cell, or plant part, comprising (a) polynucleotide molecule having nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 and their complements and (b) event 17053, where representative sample of seed comprising event 17053 is deposited under ATCC (accession No. PTA-9843);    (7) rice commodity product, comprising DNA molecule of SEQ ID NO: 1 and 2;    (8) rice plant or their part capable of producing an event 17053 diagnostic amplicon in DNA amplification method, where representative seed comprises event 17053;    (9) method of producing a rice plant tolerant to glyphosate herbicide, involves introducing the representative seed comprising event 17053 into genome of plant;    (10) method for controlling growth of weeds in field comprising rice plants comprising event 17053, involves treating field with an amount of glyphosate effective to control the growth of weeds, where the rice plants exhibit tolerance to the glyphosate;    (11) non living plant material, comprising DNA molecule of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2 and their complements; and    (12) microorganism comprising polynucleotide molecule having nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and 2 or their complements.