Patents Examined by Russell Boggs
  • Patent number: 10039258
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for unique spinach plants with broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew and their progeny. Such plants may comprise an introgressed QTL associated with the broad-spectrum resistance to downy mildew. In certain aspects, compositions, including distinct polymorphic molecular markers, and methods for producing, using, identifying, selecting, and the like of plants or germplasm with resistance to downy mildew are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Willem Brugmans, Eduardo López Fernandez, Inge Weber
  • Patent number: 9856486
    Abstract: Trichome specific plant promoters are provided herein. Also provided are transgenic cells and organisms, especially plant cell and plants, comprising such trichome-specific promoter or a chimeric or vector comprising such trichome-specific promoter. The invention further provides methods for expressing nucleic acid sequences in cells and organisms using trichome specific promoters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Keygene N.V.
    Inventors: Paul Johan Diergaarde, Marinus Willem Prins, Martin De Vos
  • Patent number: 9845477
    Abstract: The invention provides DNA molecules and constructs, including their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants and plant cells. Transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides are also provided, as are methods of their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Barrett C. Foat, Mohammed Oufattole, Randall W. Shultz, Xiaoping Wei, Wei Wu, Shiaw-Pyng Yang
  • Patent number: 9840717
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a gene having a novel function that can cause an increase or decrease in seed protein content is searched for. A chimeric protein obtained by fusing a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 76 and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor or a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 77 to 84 is expressed in a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Madoka Yonekura, Chikara Ohto, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Masaru Takagi, Kyoko Matsui
  • Patent number: 9834782
    Abstract: Provided are isolated polynucleotides, polypeptides encoded thereby, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, plant cells and plants comprising same and methods of generating plants with increased yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, abiotic stress tolerance, and/or nitrogen use efficiency, wherein the polynucleotides encode polypeptides at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 574-930, 6266-10549 or 10550, such as the polynucleotides set forth in SEQ ID NOs:1-573, and 931-6265.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Evogene Ltd.
    Inventors: Limor Poraty-Gavra, Ilya Pankratov, Hagai Karchi
  • Patent number: 9828608
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventor: Nestor Apuya
  • Patent number: 9777286
    Abstract: Provided are constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using Zea mays metallothionein-like gene regulatory elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Manju Gupta, Sandeep Kumar, Navin Elango, Karthik Narayna Muthuraman, Jeffrey Beringer, Huixia Wu, Nagesh Sardesai
  • Patent number: 9777285
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Nickolai Alexandrov, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Noah Theiss, Danielle Grizard, Shauna J. Davis, Dennis Robles, Michael Portereiko
  • Patent number: 9756825
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SV6203VB and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SV6203VB and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernardus Baerends
  • Patent number: 9758789
    Abstract: Provided are constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using the regulatory elements, including the promoters and/or 3?-UTRs, isolated from Setaria italica ubiquitin genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar, Andrew Asberry
  • Patent number: 9752155
    Abstract: Provided are constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using the regulatory elements, including the promoters and/or 3?-UTRs, isolated from Brachypodium distachyon ubiquitin genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar, Manju Gupta, Diaa Alabed
  • Patent number: 9750222
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SV3319VC and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SV3319VC and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernardus Baerends
  • Patent number: 9743632
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SV4888VA and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SV4888VA and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernardus Baerends
  • Patent number: 9719101
    Abstract: The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean eukaryotic glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenasegene and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a constitutive manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: Zhongsen Li
  • Patent number: 9714429
    Abstract: This invention is in the field of plant biology and agriculture and relates to novel seed specific promoter regions. The present invention further provide methods of producing proteins and other products of interest and methods of controlling expression of nucleic acid sequences of interest using the seed specific promoter regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Elizabeth Hood, Thomas Teoh
  • Patent number: 9706740
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SV3590VA and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SV3590VA and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernardus Baerends
  • Patent number: 9708618
    Abstract: Provided are constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using the regulatory elements, including the promoters and/or 3?-UTRs, isolated from Brachypodium distachyon ubiquitin genes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar, Jeffrey Beringer
  • Patent number: 9695435
    Abstract: A technique by which the production of plant biomass can be significantly increased is provided. A protein phosphatase 2C gene having 3 consensus sequences comprising the amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS: 1-3 from the N-terminal side in such order is over-expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, OKAYAMA PREFECTURE
    Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Chikara Ohto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Kenichi Ogawa, Hiroki Sugimoto, Tomoko Tanaka, Madoka Yonekura
  • Patent number: 9686956
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of spinach hybrid SV4333VC and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of spinach hybrid SV4333VC and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a spinach plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another spinach plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the leaf and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
    Inventor: Bernardus Baerends
  • Patent number: 9688996
    Abstract: Provided are methods, vectors and gene constructs for enhancing expression of a recombinant nucleic acid sequence in transgenic plants and plant tissues. According to the present invention, nucleic acid sequences are obtained and/or derived from the 3? untranslated regions of genes encoding ubiquitin proteins and engineered to flank respective portions of a selected coding region of a vector. The vector construct may be introduced into plants and/or plant tissues through conventional or gene targeting procedures, resulting in enhanced expression of the selected coding region. In some embodiments, the selected coding region is a chimeric gene or gene fragment expressing one or more proteins known to impart a level of insecticidal activity to a transgenic plant and/or plant tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar, Manju Gupta, Diaa Alabed