Abstract: The present invention provides transformed plants comprising a polynucleotide enconding amino polyol amine oxidase (APAO ) from Exophiala spinifera and a method of expressing APAO transgenic plants and seeds. In this way, transgenic plant can be produced having fumonisin degrading capability, as well as with the capability of producing the degrading enzymes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to expression and assembly of foreign multimeric proteins—e.g., antibodies—in plants, as well as to transgenic plants that express such proteins. In one of several preferred embodiments, the generation and assembly of functional secretory antibodies in plants is disclosed. The invention also discloses compositions produced by the transgenic plants of the present invention and methods of using same.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a DNA construct comprising a first DNA molecule having a length insufficient to independently impart resistance to papaya ringspot virus to plants transformed with said first DNA molecule, wherein the first DNA molecule is from a DNA molecule encoding a papaya ringspot virus coat protein and is at least 110 nucleotides in length. The construct also comprises a second DNA of at least 400 nucleotides in length, which is coupled to the first DNA molecule so that the first and second DNA molecules collectively achieve post-transcriptional silencing and impart resistance to papaya ringspot virus. Alternately, the DNA construct can comprise a plurality of DNA molecules each of which is at least 110 nucleotides and at least one of which is from a DNA encoding a papaya ringspot viral coat protein and is insufficient in length to independently impart resistance to papaya ringspot virus to plants.

Abstract: The current invention provides the Zea mays GRP (ZMGRP) promoter. Compositions comprising this sequence are described, as are plants transformed with such compositions. Further provided are methods for the expression of transgenes in plants comprising the use of these sequences. The methods of the invention include the direct creation of transgenic plants with the ZMGRP promoter by genetic transformation, as well as by plant breeding methods. The sequences of the invention represent a valuable new tool for the creation of transgenic plants, preferably having one or more added beneficial characteristics.

Abstract: The specification discloses a nucleic acid from Bacillus thuringiensis strain KB59A4-6 that encodes a novel pesticidal SUP toxin and plants and microbial cells transformed with the nucleic acid.

Abstract: The present invention discloses plant derived nucleic acid molecules and proteins. The protein disclosed in the present invention have 5′-phosphoribosyl-5-aminoimidazole (AIR) synthetase activity. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for producing transgenic plants, transgenic plant tissues, transgenic plant seeds, and transgenick plant cells using genes encoding enzymes having AIR synthetase activity.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 9469069601976, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 9469069601976, to the plants of soybean 9469069601976 and to methods for producing a soybean plant by crossing the cultivar 9469069601976 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 9469069601976 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: Plants made resistant to insects by transforming their nuclear genome with two or more DNA sequences, each encoding a different non-competitively binding B. thuringiensis protoxin or insecticidal part thereof, preferably the toxin thereof.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 950045734361, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 950045734361, to the plants of soybean 950045734361 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the cultivar 950045734361 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 950045734361 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new caffeoyl-CoA 3-O-methyltransferase genes isolated from parsley and their use for the transformation of vectors, host organisms and plants.

Abstract: The invention provides DNA isolated from a plant species of the family Brassicaceae that can be introduced into the genomes of plants to produce genetically-modified plants having higher levels of squalene than the natural plants. The DNA corresponds to squalene epoxidase gene of the same or a related plant, and may have the sequence as shown by SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:3, or SEQ ID NO:5, or a sequence having at least 60% identity with such a sequence. The DNA is introduced into the genome in a way that results in down-regulation of an exogenous plant squalene gene to suppress the expression of squalene epoxidase. The invention also relates to a process of producing genetically-modified plants, plasmids and vectors used in the method, genetically-modified plants and seeds thereof and a method of producing squalene from the modified plants.

Abstract: The present invention provides the complete cDNA sequence of maize acetyl CoA carboxylase and a method introducing and expressing a plant acetyl CoA carboxylase gene in plant cells. The method includes the steps of introducing an expression cassette encoding a plant acetyl CoA carboxylase or an antisense DNA sequence complementary to the sequence for a plant acetyl CoA carboxylase gene operably linked to a promoter functional in plant cells, into the cells of a plant tissue and expressing the plant acetyl CoA carboxylase gene. The expression cassette can also be introduced into other host cells to increase yield of a plant acetyl CoA carboxylase crystallized enzyme.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 9312029511111, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 9312029511111, to the plants of soybean 9312029511111 and to methods for producing a soybean plant by crossing the cultivar 9312029511111 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 9312029511111 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to transformed microrganisms comprising DNA molecules encoding Bacillus thuringiensis proteins with insecticidal activity. The invention relates more particularly to transformed microrganisms comprising DNA molecules encoding the protease resistant toxins BTS02618Aa or BTS02618Ab.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 952145711160, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 952145711160, to the plants of soybean 952145711160 and to methods for producing a soybean plant by crossing the cultivar 952145711160 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 952145711160 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: The present invention provide Mi nucleic acids encoding Mi polypeptides which confer resistance to nematodes and other pests. The Mi nucleic acids can be used to produce transgenic plants resistant to these pests.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a novel DNA construct comprising an expression cassette having a constitutive promoter which functions in plant cells operably linked to a maize alcohol dehydrogenase intron, a DNA sequence of a gene encoding a Cry 1Ab protein, and a terminator functional in plants and optionally further comprising a second cassette including a promoter which functions in plants operably linked to a maize alcohol dehydrogenase intron, a DNA sequence of a gene encoding for phosphinothricin acetyl transferase, and a terminator functional in plants wherein the two cassettes are transcribed in the same direction. Also provided are transgenic plants, particularly maize plants, having such a construct stably incorporated into their genomes.

Abstract: There is provided (a) a process to discharge into an extracellular space of a plant an intracellular osmotin protein that naturally has a vacuolar targeting sequence at its C-terminal end which naturally targets the protein into a plant vacuole; and (b) a recombinant polynucleotide for use in the process. The recombinant polynucleotide includes a promoter that is functional in plants; an open reading frame encoding an intracellular osmotin protein under control of the promoter, the open reading frame having been modified to target the intracellular osmotin protein to an apoplast by creating a translation stop codon in the open reading frame at the 3' end resulting in deletion of the C-terminal amino acids of the intracellular osmotin protein necessary for intracellular osmotin targeting; and a terminator operably linked to the modified open reading frame.

Abstract: A cDNA clone from Arabidopsis thaliana, pHPP1.5, SEQ ID NO:1, which encodes the enzyme p-hydroxyphenyl pyruvic acid dioxygenase, is disclosed. A vector and microbial host containing a DNA sequence coding for the expression of Arabidopsis thaliana p-hydroxyphenyl pyruvic acid dioxygenase, and a genetic construct containing a DNA sequence coding for the expression of Arabidopsis thaliana p-hydroxyphenyl pyruvic acid dioxygenase, together with a promoter located 5' to the DNA coding sequence and a 3' termination sequence, are also disclosed. A method of creating a transgenic plant comprising said genetic construct is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to novel approaches in generating transgenic plants exhibiting altered flower colour by the introduction of a nucleotide sequence encoding dihydroflavonol-4-reductase (DFR) which preferably acts on dihydromyricetin (DHM). More particularly, the present invention provides transgenic carnation plants and flowers cut therefrom exhibiting flower colouration not naturally associated with carnation plants. The present invention further contemplates methods for producing transgenic carnation plants with the altered flower colour.