Patents Examined by Brendan O. Baggot
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Patent number: 7482508Abstract: The present invention provides novel genes involved in cellulose biosynthesis and methods using such genes to modulate cellulose biosynthesis in fiber-producing plants such as cotton. The invention also provides methods for identifying and isolating alleles of these genes in a population of fiber-producing plants that correlate with the quality of the produced fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Australian National UniversityInventors: Joanne Elizabeth Burn, Richard Edward Williamson
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Patent number: 7476778Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding galactinol synthase are disclosed. Recombinant DNA construct(s) for use in altering expression of endogenous genes encoding galactinol synthase are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: January 13, 2009Assignee: E.I. Du PontInventors: Johan M. Stoop, Perry G. Caimi
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Patent number: 7473820Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoters of flax conlinin and ?-3 desaturase genes. The promoters guide high levels of the expression exclusively in flax developing seeds. This specific expression pattern concomitant with the biosynthesis of storage lipids and proteins make these promoters particularly useful for seed-specific modification of fatty acid and protein compositions in plant seeds.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.Inventors: Xiao Qiu, Martin Truksa, Zhiyuan Hu
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Patent number: 7456334Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root-preferred promoter for the gene encoding Cr1Bio. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method includes stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: November 25, 2008Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Lynne E. Sims, Kim R. Ward
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Patent number: 7371928Abstract: Provided are a seed-specific expression promoter derived from sesame microsomal oleic acid desaturase (Si-FAD2) gene, an intron for expression enhancement, a seed-specific expression vector including the promoter and/or the intron, and a transgenic plant transformed with the seed-specific expression vector. Therefore, a useful product can be produced in a seed-specific manner or a common product in a seed can be functionally modified. Also, the promoter can be used together with the intron for expression enhancement, thereby increasing the expression level of an inserted gene in a seed. Therefore, it is very useful in development of a transgenic plant which induces large-scale expression of a foreign gene in a seed-specific manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2003Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Korea Chungang Educational FoundationInventors: Mi-Chung Suh, Mi-Jung Kim, Hee-Ja Kim, Chung-Han Chung, Jae-Ho Pyee, Nam-In Hyung
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Patent number: 7368628Abstract: The present inventors presumed that rice globulins accumulating in vacuole-derived type II protein bodies comprise a vacuolar translocating signal and proceeded to identify such a signal. As a result, fusion proteins composed of a 15 amino acid residue peptide of globulin, extending from the 72nd leucine residue to the 86th serine residue, added to the C terminus of GFP were surprisingly found to be intracellularly localized to non-vacuole-derived type I protein bodies (PB-I), and not to vacuole-derived type II protein bodies (PB-II). Furthermore, based on this 15 amino acid residue sequence, the consensus sequence “QCCXQ” (where X is an arbitrary amino acid), which is conserved in plants, was discovered. Accordingly, the present invention suggests that arbitrary peptides can be accumulated in plant endosperm tissues by adding the QCCXQ sequence thereto.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: National Institute of Agrobiological SciencesInventors: Yasushi Kawagoe, Fumio Takaiwa
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Patent number: 7361807Abstract: The invention relates to the genes encoding 3-oxoacyl-[acyl carrier protein(ACP)] reductase (OAR). Compositions and methods for producing polyhydroxyalkanoate in transformed plants and transformed host cells are provided. Such methods find use in producing biodegradable thermoplastics in host cells and plants. Isolated nucleotide molecules, expression cassettes, isolated polypeptides and genetically manipulated host cells, plants, plant tissues, plant cells and seeds are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International. Inc.Inventors: Peizhong Zheng, Chun Ping Li, Scott E. Nichols
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Patent number: 7358419Abstract: The invention provides methods for enhancing maize silk exsertion under stress conditions and compositions relating to such methods, including nucleic acids and proteins. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Zinselmeier, Timothy G. Helentjaris
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Patent number: 7354765Abstract: The present invention relates to soya cell cultures and soya cell strains producing a high amount of isoflavones and to a process for preparing an isolating isoflavone compounds in high yields. The present invention also pertains to soya plants regenerated from such cell strains and the use thereof for obtaining isoflavone compounds.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2004Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Ermanno Federici, Andre Touche, Didier Courtois, Vincent Petiard
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Patent number: 7355096Abstract: The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule capable of modifying pollen-specific expression, constructs including the molecule and methods of using the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2004Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Molecular Plant Breeding Nominees LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Angela Jane Lidgett, Natasha Petrovska
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Patent number: 7332649Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of fine chemicals, in particular vitamin E, vitamin K and/or ubiquinone by culturing organisms, in particular plants, whose shikimate pathway is genetically modified over that of the wild type, and to the transgenic organisms themselves.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2001Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ralf Badur, Michael Geiger, Irene Kunze, Susanne Sommer
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Patent number: 7326547Abstract: A soybean oil of a decreased content of polyunsaturated fatty acids is produced by hybridizing, selecting and raising a soybean mutant KK21 characterized by a gene having a sequence of base given by the sequence No. 1 of the sequence listing, a soybean mutant M23 characterized by deletion of a gene having a sequence of base given by the sequence No. 2 of the sequence listing, a soybean mutant M24 characterized by a gene having a sequence of base given by the sequence No. 3 of the sequence listing, a soybean mutant M5 characterized by a gene having a sequence of base given by the sequence No. 4 of the sequence listing, a soybean mutant J18 characterized by deletion of a gene having a sequence of base given by the sequence No. 5 of the sequence listing, and one or two kinds or more of these soybean mutants.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2003Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Saga Prefectural Regional Industry Support CenterInventors: Toyoaki Anai, Yutaka Takagi
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Patent number: 7312376Abstract: Regulatory regions suitable for regulating expression of a heterologous nucleic acid are described, as well as nucleic acid constructs that include these regulatory regions. Also disclosed are transgenic plants, e.g., Papaveraceae plants, that contain such constructs.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Ceres, Inc.Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Yuping Lu
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Patent number: 7294756Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding galactinol synthase are disclosed. Recombinant DNA construct(s) for use in altering expression of endogenous genes encoding galactinol synthase are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Johan M. Stoop, Stephen M. Allen, Perry G. Caimi
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Patent number: 7291765Abstract: The promoters of a soybean seed maturation protein PM29 and a soybean late-embryogenesis abundant protein LEA3 and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Zhan-Bin Liu, Johan M. Stoop
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Patent number: 7273967Abstract: The present invention relates to a promoter directing high levels of expression of a gene in plant storage roots, derived from the sweet potato MADS-box gene, a vector directing high levels of expression of a gene in plant storage roots comprising the same and a transient assay method expressing a foreign gene transiently in plant storage roots using the same vector. The promoter according to the present invention can induce high levels of expression particularly in plant storage roots. Therefore the present invention is very useful for the development of transgenic plants to produce valuable materials in large quantities in plant storage roots.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2005Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Inventors: Jung Myung Bae, Seol Ah Noh, Man Sup Kwak, Jeong Sheop Shin, Haeng Soon Lee
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Patent number: 7268270Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for a root-preferred promoter for the gene encoding Cr1Bio. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method includes stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2005Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Lynne E. Sims, Kim R. Ward
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Patent number: 7241938Abstract: A method of controlling cyst nematode population in soybeans by providing a blended composition of soybean varieties. At least one of the soybean varieties in the blend has resistance to a given race spectrum, while another of the soybean varieties in the blend may have resistance to a differing race spectrum or be a susceptible variety. The blend may include 10 to 90% of the first variety and 90 to 10% of the second variety. The blend may consist of three or more soybean varieties.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: Mark Seed CompanyInventor: Mark A. Terpstra
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Patent number: 7241935Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the production of Betaine lipids. The methods of the present invention comprise the expression of recombinant enzymes (e.g. from Rhodobacter sphaeroides) in host cells (e.g. bacteria, yeast, and plants) to produce Betaine lipid compounds including, but not limited to, Diacylglyceryl-O-4?-(N,N,N,-trimethyl) homoserine (DGTS). The methods and compositions of the present invention may be utilized such that the amount of phosphate containing fertilizer required for the growth of a particular plant is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: The Board of Trustees Operating Michigan State UniversityInventors: Christoph Benning, Wayne Riekhof
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Patent number: 7235710Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant molecular biology. In particular, it describes the use of a regulatory nucleic acid sequence of the rice gene GOS2 for the regulation of gene expression in plant cells derived from plants other than monocotyledonous plants. The use of the regulatory sequence of the present invention results in constitutive expression with expression levels similar to that of CaMV 35S. The present invention also relates to vectors and host cells comprising these nucleic acid sequences. The invention further relates to transgenic cells and plants comprising these sequences and to methods for obtaining such cells and plants.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Cropdesign N.V.Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Dirk Inze