Patents Assigned to Maxygar, Inc.
  • Modified starch metabolism enzymes and encoding genes for improvement and optimization of plant phenotypes
    Patent number: 6703240
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for generating, identifying, and selecting polynucleotides encoding novel starch metabolizing enzymes (NSME), NSME-encoding polynucleotides, compositions of recombinant shuffled NSME protein, plant cells and microbes containing a shuffled NSME polynucleotide in expressible form, plants containing a shuffled NSME polynucleotide in expressible form, novel starch compositions produced by plants and cells, uses of such plants, cells, and starch compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Maxygar, Inc.
    Inventors: Willem P. C. Stemmer, Venkitswaran Subramanian, Sun Ai Raillard, Gjalt Huisman