Patents Examined by Fan Weihua
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Patent number: 9657307Abstract: Disclosed are a herbicide resistance gene and use thereof, wherein 1) the amino acid sequence of the encoded protein is at least more than 80% identical to SEQ ID NO:1; and 2) the encoded protein is capable of resulting in resistance to at least one of the following types of herbicides: acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides, protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO)-inhibiting herbicides, p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD)-inhibiting herbicides, photosystem II-inhibiting herbicides, and synthetic auxin herbicides. The gene disclosed herein can be introduced into a plant to obtain a transgenic plant against herbicides. A method is disclosed for obtaining an herbicide-resistant transgenic plant by using an herbicide-resistant gene. Such herbicide-resistant transgenic plant can prevent damage of herbicides to the plant, providing a convenient and economical means for selectively killing weeds.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2011Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: HANGZHOU RUIFENG BIOTECHNOLOGY LIMITED INC.Inventors: Zhicheng Shen, Chaoyang Lin, Chengyi Liu
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Patent number: 9644214Abstract: Methods and compositions for improving plant resistance by expression of NPR homolog 3 (NH3) polypeptides are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Mawsheng Chern, Wei Bai, Pamela Ronald
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Patent number: 9642328Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH1TJA and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH1TJA with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1TJA through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH1TJA or a locus conversion of PH1TJA with another maize variety.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Sara Jane Lira, Geoffrey Ian Graham
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Patent number: 9637754Abstract: Disclosed are mutant CDK inhibitor (CKI) polypeptides having dominant negative antagonist activity against wild-type CKI proteins, as well as related compositions, including nucleic acids and vectors encoding the mutant CKI polypeptides and transformed host cells and transgenic plants comprising such nucleic acids and vectors. Also disclosed are related methods for using the mutant proteins to modulate cell division in cells, particularly plant cells.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Targeted Growth, Inc.Inventors: Paul Olivier, Jay Derocher, James Roberts
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Patent number: 9624506Abstract: The present invention relates to a new method for improving glyphosate resistance of a plant. The method encompasses providing one or more specific mutations in a specific nucleotide sequence in said plant. In comparison to a plant not manipulated according to the method, the plant obtained by the method displays (improved) glyphosate resistance. Also provided are a (transgenic) plant, including a seed thereof, and a plant product that can be obtained by the method according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KEYGENE N.V.Inventor: Paul Bundock
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Patent number: 9624500Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions for modifying tocochromanol biosynthesis in plants. The present invention thus surprisingly and beneficially provides for increasing desired tocochromanol compounds in plants and enhancing the nutritional quality of human food and animal feed, without associate deleterious plant phenotypes.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Gary Stacey, Minviluz G. Stacey
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Patent number: 9622429Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a peptide comprising a six-member ring created by the disulfide bond between two cysteines in the increase of biomass of a photosynthetic organism, for its application in the wood industry, in obtaining energy coming from renewable sources and in agriculture.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: BioMass Booster, S.L.Inventors: Alfredo Martinez Ramirez, Jorge Conrado Arenas Vidal
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Patent number: 9612235Abstract: The instant disclosure provides methods to identify herbicidal compositions that consist of a combination of compounds that inhibit the growth of or kill undesired plant species in a synergistic manner. Also provided are herbicidal compositions identified using this method.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Koch Biological Solutions, LLCInventor: Joshua I. Armstrong
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Patent number: 9605274Abstract: The present invention provides the identification and use of EG261, homologs of EG261, orthologs of EG261, paralogs of EG261, and fragments and variations thereof for altering, e.g. increasing, pathogen tolerance and/or resistance in plants.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Evolutionary Genomics, Inc.Inventor: Walter Messier
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Patent number: 9605273Abstract: Cotton event pDAB4468.19.10.3 comprises genes encoding AAD-12 and PAT, affording herbicide tolerance to cotton crops containing the event, and enabling methods for crop protection.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Yunxing C. Cui, Raina King, Tina M. Kaiser, Andrew E. Robinson, Dayakar Pareddy, Sandra G. Toledo, Leon B. Braxton, David M. Anderson, Terry R. Wright
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Patent number: 9587248Abstract: Plants having increased resistance to a pest relative to corresponding control plants are provided. The resistant plants have inhibited expression, activity, or function of a susceptibility gene, and thereby have decreased expression, activity, or function of the susceptibility gene in the presence of the pest as compared to a control plant in which the wild-type susceptibility gene is normally expressed in the presence of the pest. Methods of producing plants with increased resistance are also provided. The methods involve altering the expression, activity, or function of a susceptibility gene, such as Mds-1, in the plant. Isolated Mds-1 sequences are provided that can be manipulated to enhance pest resistance in modified plants. Modified plants, plant cells, tissues, seeds, and progeny are also provided having enhanced pest resistance.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2012Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignees: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Harold Trick, Xiuming Liu, Ming-Shun Chen
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Patent number: 9578880Abstract: The present invention provides for compositions and methods for producing crop plants that are resistant to herbicides. In particular, the present invention provides for wheat plants, plant tissues and plant seeds that contain altered acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACCase) genes and proteins that are resistant to inhibition by herbicides that normally inhibit the activity of the ACCase protein.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Colorado Wheat Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Michael Hal Ostlie, Scott Haley, Philip Westra, Victoria Ashley Valdez
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Patent number: 9572315Abstract: The present invention relates to an ALS inhibitor herbicide tolerant B. napus plant, progeny and parts thereof comprising a non-transgenic mutation of an endogenous acetolactate synthase I gene and a non-transgenic mutation of an endogenous acetolactate synthase III gene.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignees: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH, DEUTSCHE SAATVEREDELUNG AGInventors: Rüdiger Hain, Günter Donn, Nathalie Knittel-Ottleben, Heinrich Busch, Carsten Oertel, Dieter Stelling
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Patent number: 9562251Abstract: Recombinant microorganisms, plants, and plant cells are disclosed that have been engineered to express novel recombinant genes encoding steviol biosynthetic enzymes and UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs). Such microorganisms, plants, or plant cells can produce steviol or steviol glycosides, e.g., rubusoside or Rebaudioside A, which can be used as natural sweeteners in food products and dietary supplements.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Evolva SAInventors: Ganesh M. Kishore, Jorgen Hansen, Jens Houghton-Larsen, Esben Halkjær Hansen, Michael Dalgaard Mikkelsen, Sabina Tavares, Charlotte Blom
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Patent number: 9556424Abstract: A method of enhancement of the 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS) activity of plants or bacteria to increase terpenes production in cells, an enhanced DXS sequence likely to be obtained by this method, a method of enhancement of production of terpenes in a host cell containing the enhanced DXS enzyme, and transgenic bacterium or plants that express this polypeptide are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: GENOPLANTE-VALORInventors: Phlippe Hugueney, Eric Duchene, Didier Merdinoglu
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Patent number: 9556422Abstract: Disclosed are a method for obtaining highly glyphosate-resistant G1174 gene mutants through artificial mutation and use thereof. Two or more amino acid mutations are introduced in the amino acid sequence from position 95 to position 114 of protein encoded by G1174 gene, and the highly glyphosate-resistant mutants are selected. Also disclosed is a highly glyphosate-resistant mutated G1174 gene, wherein the amino acid sequence from position 95 to position 114 is selected from any one of SEQ ID NO: 4 to SEQ ID NO: 24. The use of the highly glyphosate-resistant mutated gene is for conferring a plant with glyphosate resistance through expression of the transgene in the plant.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: HANGZHOU RUIFENG BIOTECHNOLOGY LIMITED INC.Inventors: Zhicheng Shen, Chaoyang Lin, Xiaoli Xu, Xinlan Li
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Patent number: 9540656Abstract: This invention relates to soybean event pDAB8291.45.36.2, which includes a novel expression cassette comprising multiple traits conferring resistance to glyphosate, aryloxyalkanoate, and glufosinate herbicides. This invention also relates in part to methods of controlling resistant weeds, plant breeding, and herbicide tolerant plants. In some embodiments, the event sequence can be “stacked” with other traits, including, for example, other herbicide tolerance gene(s) and/or insect-inhibitory proteins. This invention further relates in part to detection methods, including endpoint TaqMan PCR assays, for the detection of Event pDAB8291.45.36.2 in soybeans and related plant material. Some embodiments can perform high throughput zygosity analysis of plant material and other embodiments can be used to uniquely identify the zygosity of and breed soybean lines comprising the event of the subject invention. Kits and conditions useful in conducting these assays are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Yunxing Cory Cui, Thomas Hoffman, Ning Zhou, Stephen Novak, Julissa Colon, Dawn M. Parkhurst, Sandra Grace Toledo, Terry R. Wright, Sean Michael Russell, Bruce Held, Vaithilingam Sekar
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Patent number: 9540655Abstract: This invention relates in part to soybean event pDAB8264.44.06.1 and includes a novel expression cassettes and transgenic inserts comprising multiple traits conferring resistance to glyphosate, aryloxyalkanoate, and glufosinate herbicides. This invention also relates in part to methods of controlling resistant weeds, plant breeding and herbicide tolerant plants. In some embodiments, the event sequence can be “stacked” with other traits, including, for example, other herbicide tolerance gene(s) and/or insect-inhibitory proteins. This invention further relates in part to endpoint TaqMan PCR assays for the detection of Event pDAB8264.44.06.1 in soybeans and related plant material. Some embodiments can perform high throughput zygosity analysis of plant material and other embodiments can be used to uniquely identify the zygosity of and breed soybean lines comprising the event of the subject invention. Kits and conditions useful in conducting these assays are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, MS Technologies, L.L.C.Inventors: Yunxing Cui, Thomas Hoffman, Ning Zhou, Stephen N. Novak, Julissa Colon, Dawn Parkhurst, Sandra Toledo, Terry Wright, Sean Russell, Bruce Held, Vaithilingam Sekar
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Patent number: 9534227Abstract: Provided are enhanced high yield production systems for producing terpenes in plants via the expression of fusion proteins comprising various combinations of geranyl diphosphate synthase large and small subunits and limonene synthases. Also provided are engineered oilseed plants that accumulate monoterpene and sesquiterpene hydrocarbons in their seeds, as well as methods for producing such plants, providing a system for rapidly engineering oilseed crop production platforms for terpene-based biofuels.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Donald Danforth Plant Science CenterInventors: Toni Kutchan, Yasuhiro Higashi, Xiaohong Feng
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Patent number: 9518282Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for producing a terpene 8-glycoside. The present invention provides a method for producing a terpene 8-glycoside by means of glycosyltransferase acting on the 8-position of terpenes. The present invention provides a transformant transformed with a gene for the glycosyltransferase acting on the 8-position of terpenes and a method for producing such a transformant. The present invention provides a plant modified to suppress the expression of a protein having glycosylation activity on the 8-position of a monoterpene compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Eiichiro Ono, Nobuo Tsuruoka