Patents Examined by Steven Bernacki
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Patent number: 9012725Abstract: The present invention relates to plants of a carrot variety SLENDERCUT and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention further relates to methods for producing a carrot plant by traditional breeding methods. The invention further relates to a method for producing a carrot plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Nunhems B.V.Inventor: Roger Freeman
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Patent number: 9006516Abstract: The present invention relates to plants of a carrot variety NUN 85021 CAC and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention further relates to methods for producing a carrot plant by traditional breeding methods. The invention further relates to a method for producing a carrot plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Nunhems B.V.Inventor: Roger Freeman
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Patent number: 9006414Abstract: Anti-sense-oriented RNA gene suppression agents in the form of a loop of anti-sense-oriented RNA is produced in cells of transgenic organisms, e.g. plants, by transcription from a recombinant DNA construct which comprises in 5? to 3? order a promoter element operably linked to an anti-sense-oriented DNA element and a complementary DNA element.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Shihshieh Huang, Thomas M. Malvar, Michael H. Luethy
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Patent number: 9000266Abstract: The present invention relates to plants of a carrot variety PURPLE ELITE and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention further relates to methods for producing a carrot plant by traditional breeding methods. The invention further relates to a method for producing a carrot plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Nunhems B.V.Inventor: Roger Freeman
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Patent number: 8993855Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pepper plants resistant to insects, and to seeds and fruits of said plants. The present invention also relates to methods of making and using such plants and their fruits. The invention further relates to markers and the use thereof in marker assisted breeding and for identifying the insect resistance trait. In particular, the present invention provides a cultivated Capsicum annuum plant which is resistant, particularly intermediately resistant, to infestations by insects of the family Thripidae and/or the genus Bemisia, but especially to infestations by Bemisia tabaci and Frankliniella occidentalis.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Enrico Gerardus Albertus Linders, Jean Louis Marie Edouard Nicolet, Henricus Johannes Van Wijk
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Patent number: 8987553Abstract: The invention provides methods for improving plant yield, particularly under nitrogen limiting conditions. According to the invention, applicants have discovered that modulating ACC synthase activity in plants improves yield of plants, even when grown under low nitrogen conditions. The same plants, while demonstrating improved yield over non-modified plants, exhibited no deleterious effects under normal nitrogen conditions. The invention further provides methods using recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International IncInventors: Nicholas J. Bate, Sarah T. Collinson, Jeffrey E. Habben, Honor Renee Lafitte, Kellie Reimann
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Patent number: 8987554Abstract: A method is disclosed for reducing the level of gossypol in cottonseed. The method generally includes selectively inducing RNA gene silencing in the seed of a transgenic cotton plant, to interfere with expression of the ?-cadinene synthase gene or the ?-cadinene-8-hydroxylase gene in the seed of the cotton plant without substantially affecting expression of that gene in the foliage, floral parts, and roots of the plant. The transgenic cotton plant comprises at least one of a ?-cadinene synthase gene trigger sequence and/or a ?-cadinene-8-hydroxylase gene trigger sequence operably linked to one or more a seed-specific promoter gene sequences, and the trigger sequence(s) is/are able to induce RNA gene silencing when expressed in cottonseed of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: Keerti S. Rathore, Ganesan Sunilkumar, LeAnne M. Campbell
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Patent number: 8981181Abstract: Methods and compositions useful in target sequence suppression and target sequence validation are described. Polynucleotide constructs useful for gene silencing, as well as cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides and a method for using microRNAs to silence a target sequence are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and CompanyInventors: Milo Aukerman, Hajime Sakai, James Tisdall, Jeanne M. Wilson
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Patent number: 8975468Abstract: The present invention relates to cultivated tomato plants that are resistant to the pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea, which is control led by at least one QTL, particularly by 2 and 3 QTL contributing to said resistance, wherein said QTL are mapping to linkage group 6, and/or linkage group 1b and/or linkage group 9b. The invention further relates to methods for producing said plants, and to the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Gregori Bonnet, Laurent Grivet, Bernard Smets
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Patent number: 8962923Abstract: The present invention relates to plants of a carrot variety NUN 89141 CAC and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention further relates to methods for producing a carrot plant by traditional breeding methods. The invention further relates to a method for producing a carrot plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Nunhems B.V.Inventor: Roger Freeman
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Patent number: 8952220Abstract: The present invention relates to plants of a carrot variety REBEL and seeds and progeny thereof. The invention further relates to methods for producing a carrot plant by traditional breeding methods. The invention further relates to a method for producing a carrot plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Nunhems, B.V.Inventor: Roger Freeman
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Patent number: 8936937Abstract: Modified expression vectors, including Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) expression vectors, methods for modifying such vectors, and uses of the same are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2008Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: The Ohio State University Research FoundationInventor: John A. Lindbo
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Patent number: 8901372Abstract: This invention relates to a nucleic acid construct. The construct includes a nucleic acid molecule configured to silence Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), a 5? DNA promoter sequence, and a 3? terminator sequence. The nucleic acid molecule, the promoter, and the terminator are operatively coupled to permit transcription of the nucleic acid molecule. The present invention also relates to expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants containing the nucleic acid construct of the present invention. Also disclosed are methods of imparting BBTV resistance to plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: University of HawaiiInventors: John Hu, Wayne Borth, Eden A. Perez, Kheng Cheah
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Patent number: 8889960Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S120120 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S120120, to the plants of soybean cultivar S120120, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S120120, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S120120. 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 S120120. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S120120, 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 S120120 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 8871997Abstract: Disclosed are a variety of methods for achieving enhanced expression from a target nucleotide sequence in a plant e.g. comprising the step of transiently introducing into a tissue of a plant (e.g. a leaf) a first nucleic acid comprising the target nucleotide sequence and a second nucleic acid encoding a Post Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) suppressor protein (preferably of viral or plant origin), wherein the first and second nucleic acids are comprised within a single binary vector, construct, or the first and second nucleic acid sequences are comprised within a first binary vector and a second binary vector construct respectively. The plant tissue may then be harvested for the protein. Such methods can give much higher levels of gene expression than are obtainable using stable transgenes, or certain replicating vectors.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: David Charles Baulcombe, Olivier Voinnet, Andrew John Hamilton
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Patent number: 8859746Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the lipid transfer protein (LTP) gene of Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Oryza sativa regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Wei Wu, Qi Wang, James Morrell, Linda Lutfiyya, Maolong Lu, Zhaolong Li, Ping Li, Michelle Lacy, David Kovalic, Yongwei Cao, Andrey Boukharov, Stanislaw Flasinski, Peter T. Hajdukiewicz
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Patent number: 8853499Abstract: A cotton variety, designated P07X.8213.RF, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety P07X.8213.RF, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety P07X.8213.RF with itself or with another cotton plant, and hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety P07X.8213.RF with another cotton variety or plant and to methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8213.RF, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8213.RF and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLCInventors: David M. Anderson, Joel F. Mahill
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Patent number: 8829289Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated S100248 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100248, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100248, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100248, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100248. 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 S100248. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100248, 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 S100248 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: M.S. Technologies LLCInventor: Justin T. Mason
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Patent number: 8829288Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 11203105 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 11203105, to the plants of soybean cultivar 11203105, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 11203105, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 11203105. 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 11203105. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 11203105, 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 11203105 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Mertec LLCInventor: Jason Aaron Long
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Patent number: 8822794Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH160660. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH160660, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH160660 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH160660.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Scott A. Bergemann, Fufa H. Birru, Peter Guzman, Richard G. Stelpflug