Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Lisa V. Mueller
  • Plants resistant to WT strains of cucumber mosaic virus
    Patent number: 6342655
    Abstract: CP genes of CMV strains V27, V33, V34, and A35 (CMV-V27, CMV-V33, CMV-V34, and CMV-A35 respectively) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: Maury L. Boeshore, J. Russell McMaster, David M. Tricoli, John F. Reynolds, Kim J. Carney
  • Transgenic plants expressing DNA constructs containing a plurality of genes to impart virus resistance
    Patent number: 6337431
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chimeric recombinant DNA molecule comprising: a plurality of DNA sequences, each of which comprises a plant-functional promoter linked to a coding region, which encodes a virus-associated coat protein, wherein said DNA sequences are preferably linked in tandem so that they are expressed in virus-susceptible plant cells transformed with said recombinant DNA molecule to impart resistance to said viruses; as well as methods for transforming plants with the chimeric recombinant DNA molecule and for selecting plants which express at least one of said DNA sequences imparting viral resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: David M Tricoli, Kim J. Carney, Paul F. Russell, Hector D. Quemada, Russell J. McMaster, John F. Reynolds, Rosaline Z. Deng
  • Rapid inducible beta-lactamase screen test
    Patent number: 6043048
    Abstract: In an assay for determination of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in a target bacterial strain, the strain is grown in the presence of both a beta-lactamese inducing antibiotic and a beta-lactam indicator antibiotic [which kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria] unable to hydrolyze beta-lactam antibiotics. Growth, indicative of drug resistance in the target strain, is monitored by detecting a fluorophor released by the enzymatic cleavage of a metabolizable fluorogenic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Dade MicroScan Inc.
    Inventors: Judith Johnston, Tracy Felland, Shoshana Bascomb, James H. Godsey