Patents Examined by Cynthia E Collins
  • Patent number: 11963506
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PASC94 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PASC94, cells from soybean variety 5PASC94, plants of soybean 5PASC94, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PASC94. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PASC94 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PASC94, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PASC94, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PASC94. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PASC94 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Donald Kyle
  • Patent number: 11952578
    Abstract: The disclosure provides novel corn, tomato, and soybean U6, U3, U2, U5, and 7SL snRNA promoters which are useful for CRISPR/Cas-mediated targeted gene modifications in plants. The disclosure also provides methods for use for U6, U3, U2, U5, and 7SL promoters in driving expression of sgRNA polynucleotides which function in a CRISPR/Cas system of targeted gene modification in plants. The disclosure also provides methods of genome modification by insertion of blunt-end DNA fragments at a site of genomic cleavage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Brent Brower-Toland, Andrei Y. Kouranov, Rosemarie Kuehn, Richard J. Lawrence, Ervin D. Nagy, Linda Rymarquis, Veena Veena
  • Patent number: 11946060
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat and/or drought tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat and/or drought-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased heat and/or drought tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Wuyi Wang, Dennis Yang
  • Patent number: 11939586
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant genetic engineering, particularly the modulation of gene expression in plant cells for improved regeneration competence. The invention discloses means and methods wherein the Ethylene Response Factor (ERF) and Phytochrome A Signal Transduction 1 (PAT1) transcription factor complex activity in plant cells grants increased regeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: VIB VZW, Universiteit Gent
    Inventors: Lieven De Veylder, Jefri Heyman
  • Patent number: 11930765
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PQGY41 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PQGY41, cells from soybean variety 5PQGY41, plants of soybean 5PQGY41, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PQGY41. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PQGY41 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PQGY41, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PQGY41, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PQGY41. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PQGY41 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle James Kocak, Landon Linn Ries
  • Patent number: 11930764
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PFDW56 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PFDW56, cells from soybean variety 5PFDW56, plants of soybean 5PFDW56, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PFDW56. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PFDW56 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PFDW56, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PFDW56, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PFDW56. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PFDW56 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Nadia Nikolayevna Krasheninnik
  • Patent number: 11926835
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to improvements in methods for efficient editing of two or more endogenous tomato genes by insertion of one or more single stranded DNA donor molecules that are not homologous to the insertion sites in the tomato genome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Tomá{hacek over (s)} {hacek over (C)}ermák, Richard Bailey Flavell, Eva Konecna, Yajie Niu, Michael Lee Nuccio, Jennifer A. Raji, Randall William Shultz, Davide Sosso, Maria Margarita D. Unson, John Patrick Casey, Jr., Michael Andreas Kock
  • Patent number: 11925161
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091628. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091628. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091628 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091628 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Heinrich S. Wohleser
  • Patent number: 11917971
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091703. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091703. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091703 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091703 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Roger L Lussenden
  • Patent number: 11913004
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a GmTEFs1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter or a 5? UTR from a GmTEFs1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Other embodiments relate to a 3? UTR or a terminator from a GmTEFs1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE, LLC
    Inventors: Lyudmila Sidorenko, Cory M. Larsen, Geny Anthony, Shreedharan Sriram, Holly Jean Butler
  • Patent number: 11913011
    Abstract: Methods are described for selecting or producing a cereal plant comprising a functional restorer gene for wheat G-type cytoplasmic male sterility and nucleic acids and/or polypeptides for use therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: BASF SE, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Mark Davey, Antje Rohde, Ruvini Ariyadasa, Aswinkumar Singaram Natarajan, Alexander Whan, Jonny Jacobs, Colin Robert Cavanagh, Michel Van Thournout, Arne Verstichele, Andrew Spriggs, William Bovill, Jose Barrero Sanchez
  • Patent number: 11891610
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a transgenic plant and a method for producing the same. In particular, the present invention is directed to a transgenic plant or a plant cell in which a nucleic acid molecule encoding an m6A demethylase is introduced, wherein said m6A demethylase has the following two domains: i) N-terminal domain (NTD) having the function of AlkB oxidation demethylase; and ii) C-terminal domain (CTD). The present invention is also directed to a method for producing said plant, comprising introducing a nucleic acid molecule encoding an m6A demethylase into a regenarable plant cell, and regenerating a transgenic plant from the regenerable plant cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Epiplanta Biotech Ltd.
    Inventors: Guifang Jia, Chuan He
  • Patent number: 11866719
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to precise modifications in wheat plant genomes including the heterologous integration of nucleic acid sequences that include a regulatory element at a predetermined locus. Also provided are wheat cells, wheat plants, wheat seeds, and processed wheat products comprising the modified wheat genomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Tomá{hacek over (s)} Cermák, Richard Bailey Flavell, Michael Andreas Kock, Eva Konecna, Yajie Niu, Michael Lee Nuccio, Jennifer Raji, Randall William Shultz, Davide Sosso, Maria Margarita D. Unson, John P. Casey, Jr., Jonathan Dallas George Jones
  • Patent number: 11864525
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated 5PSQC68 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PSQC68, cells from soybean variety 5PSQC68, plants of soybean 5PSQC68, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PSQC68. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PSQC68 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PSQC68, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PSQC68, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PSQC68. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germ plasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PSQC68 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Jessie Lynn Alt, Andrea Beth Kalvig
  • Patent number: 11866717
    Abstract: Genetically modified plants and methods of detecting diseases by a relevant color change in the genetically modified plant compared to a non-genetically modified plant are provided. Also disclosed is a system for remote detection of pathogens on crops and a methods for treating crops under a pathogenic attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INSIGNUM AGTECH, LLC.
    Inventors: Kyle Mohler, Marcelo German
  • Patent number: 11866718
    Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, as well as their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising the recombinant DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable DNA molecules, as are methods of their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Ian W. Davis, Aabid Shariff
  • Patent number: 11859192
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and compositions for improving leaf quality in low-alkaloid tobacco plants, e.g., by combining inducible promoters and non-coding RNAs for suppression of an ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) gene. Also provided are low alkaloid tobacco plants with normal, suppressed, or otherwise altered polyamine levels. Further provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid, nicotine levels, commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, James A. Strickland, Jesse Frederick, Dongmei Xu, Chengalrayan Kudithipudi
  • Patent number: 11856915
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 00350156 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 00350156, to the plants of soybean cultivar 00350156, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 00350156, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 00350156. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 00350156. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 00350156, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 00350156 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11839194
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04020201 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04020201, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04020201, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04020201, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04020201. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04020201. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04020201, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 04020201 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason
  • Patent number: 11832579
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 04120519 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 04120519, to the plants of soybean cultivar 04120519, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 04120519, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 04120519. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04120519. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 04120519, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 04120519 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: M.S. TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Justin T. Mason