Patents Examined by Wayne Zhong
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Patent number: 11820993Abstract: The present invention relates to an allele designated alpha-WOLF 26 which confers resistance to at least one Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinacea race, wherein the protein encoded by said allele is a CC-NBS-LRR protein that may comprise in its amino acid sequence: a) the motif “MAEIGYSVC” SEQ ID NO: 1 at its N-terminus; and b) the motif “KWMCLR” SEQ ID NO: 2; and wherein the LRR domain of the protein has in order of increased preference at least 91%, 91.5%, 92%, 92.5%, 93%, 93.5%, 94%, 94.5%, 95%, 95.5%, 96%, 96.5%, 97%, 97.5%, 98%, 98.5%, 99%, 99.5%, 100% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO: 10. The allele when present in a spinach plant confers complete resistance to at least Peronospora farinosa f. sp. spinacea race Pfs:7, Pfs:10, Pfs:11, Pfs:12, Pfs:13, Pfs:14, Pfs:15, Pfs:16, Pfs:17, and does not confer resistance to downy mildew race Pfs:8 and Pfs:9.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Erik den Boer, Raoul Jacobus Johannes Maria Frijters
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Patent number: 11813302Abstract: The present invention provides transgenic Brassica events LBFLFK and LBFDAU and progeny thereof, and cells, seeds, plants comprising DNA diagnostic for these events. The invention also provides artificial oligonucleotide primers and probes that are diagnostic for the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample, and methods for detecting the presence of the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events and their progeny in a sample. The invention further provides oil and commodity products derived from the LBFLFK and LBFDAU events.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Dietrich Rein, Jörg Bauer, Carl Andre
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Patent number: 11802286Abstract: The present invention provides a method and means to change fatty acid and ultimately triacylglycerol production in plants and algae. Methods of the invention comprise the step of altering the activity levels of the committed step for de novo fatty acid biosynthesis, acetyl-CoA carboxylases (ACCase). More specifically, methods of the invention directly enhance the activity of ACCase by overexpression of ?-CT or a catalytic portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: The Curators of the University of MissouriInventors: Jay J. Thelen, Matthew Salie
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Patent number: 11737407Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01092991. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01092991. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01092991 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01092991 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Mark Newell
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Patent number: 11730103Abstract: A wheat variety designated 6PLSK70B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PLSK70B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PLSK70B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PLSK70B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PLSK70B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PLSK70B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventors: William Joseph Laskar, Cristiano Lemes Da Silva, Kyle Jay Lively, Gregory Charles Marshall
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Patent number: 11716944Abstract: The present invention provides a method for improving a one-time seedling rate of microspore embryoids of Brassica campestris ssp. Chinensis Makino, including the steps of: spraying 6-BA onto a flower bud of a plant; sterilizing the flower bud with alcohol and HgCl2; releasing microspores, filtering and centrifuging to obtain purified microspores; diluting the microspores with a NLN medium, subpackaging into culture dishes, and adding phytic acid; finally, subjecting to heat shock treatment and transferring to culture in the dark until embryoids appear, and then conducting shaking culture; transferring the cultured embryos in a cotyledon stage onto a MS medium for differentiation culture, wherein the culture conditions are: 4° C., 14 h of illumination by blue-red compound light/day, and 14 days of culture; and then continuing to culture under the condition of 25° C. and 14 h of illumination by blue-red compound light/day until seedlings.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignees: Anhui Agricultural University, Anhui Wanjiang Vegetable Industry Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lingyun Yuan, Liting Zhang, Chenggang Wang, Xingxue Huang, Shidong Zhu, Jinlong Zhang, Jinfeng Hou, Xiaoyan Tang, Zegen Zhang
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Patent number: 11718845Abstract: Plant cell cultures as well as related methods, systems, and compositions for increasing the frequency and efficiency of plant genome editing are provided. Various plant cell growth conditions and/or treatments where such increases in gene editing frequencies are obtained are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Erik William Clement, Yajie Niu, Frank Anthony Skraly
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Patent number: 11700806Abstract: A lettuce cultivar, designated Patton, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Patton and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Patton with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Patton, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Patton and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Patton with another lettuce cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Southwest Genetics, LLCInventors: Davie Lee Brooks, II, Jon Cody Nickerson
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Patent number: 11700808Abstract: A novel hybrid squash plant, designated YELLOW QUEEN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid squash designated YELLOW QUEEN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid squash designated YELLOW QUEEN, and to methods for producing a squash plant by crossing the hybrid squash YELLOW QUEEN with itself or another squash plant.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: H.M.Clause, Inc.Inventor: Sarah Smith
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Patent number: 11700805Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding and in particular to the regeneration of plants from cells and other tissues. More particularly, the invention provides methods and means for improving callus formation and regeneration of plants from callus tissue using a histone deacetylase inhibitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGaAInventor: David Pacheco Villalobos
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Patent number: 11674152Abstract: Provided is a novel anti-armyworm use of cry1Ab/cry1AcZM gene. Said gene can be used for controlling or killing Mythimna separate (Walker) and reducing injury to plants by Mythimna separate.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventors: Xianbin Hou, Rongjian Ye, Qiuming She, Yu Han, Zhiguo Han, Qiao Yang, Wei Huang, Qianqian Yang, Yanlin Hu, Jicui An, Yingli Wang, Yazhou Yang, Junqing Zhou, Wanggen Zhang
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Patent number: 11667681Abstract: Provided herein are green alga Cia8 polypeptides and the polynucleotides that encode them. Also provided herein are transformed cells and transgenic plants that include one or more of the polynucleotides and/or polypeptides provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: James V. Moroney, Marylou C. Machingura, Joanna N. Bajsa-Hirschel
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Patent number: 11666013Abstract: A new and distinct lettuce variety NUN 09178 LTL is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and heads or leaves thereof. NUN 09178 LTL is a multileaf red lettuce variety, comprising resistance to Downy Mildew (Bremia lactucae) Isolates Bl:16-37 EU and Nasonovia ribisnigri Biotype Nr:0.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.Inventor: Johan Van Zee
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Patent number: 11661609Abstract: The present disclosure is related to plant breeding and methods of identifying and selecting plants with disease resistance. Provided are methods to identify novel genes that encode proteins providing plant disease resistance and uses thereof. These disease resistant genes are useful in the production of resistant plants through breeding, transgenic modification, or genome editing.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Zhibing Lai, Hongze Wang, Jiabao Hou
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Patent number: 11661607Abstract: Sorghum plants are provided which are capable of inducing haploidy by modifications in the genome related to a pollen-specific expressed patatin phospholipid producing haploid offspring and can be produced for hybrid breeding in short time by chromosome doubling inbred lines, that is, homozygous father and mother lines. In addition, methods are provided for producing transgenic and non-transgenic plant haploid inducers and improving the induction performance of plants.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaAInventors: Monika Kloiber-Maitz, Silke Wieckhorst, Christof Bolduan, Milena Ouzunova
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Patent number: 11641825Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 4KKMR0371 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 4KKMR0371 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 4KKMR0371 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 4KKMR0371 or a locus conversion of 4KKMR0371 with another maize variety.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas Conrad Mack, Jeffrey S. Posch
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Patent number: 11639507Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for extracting lipid from vegetative plant parts such as leaves, stems, roots and tubers, and for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from the lipids. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
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Patent number: 11634725Abstract: The disclosure relates to a plant that is tolerant or resistant to species of Ca. Liberibacter. Specifically exemplified are citrus and solanaceous plants. Provided by the disclosure is a modified citrus or solanaceous plant that is resistant or tolerant to Sec-dependent effectors secreted by bacteria. Also provided by the disclosure are methods of modifying a plant genome plant to provide tolerance or resistance to species of Ca. Liberibacter. Still further provided by the disclosure are methods conferring a population of plants with tolerance or resistance to species of Ca. Liberibacter and screening that population for the plants that are tolerant or resistant to species of Ca. Liberibacter.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventor: Nian Wang
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Patent number: 11624071Abstract: The invention relates to novel plants, seeds and compositions, as well as improvements to plant breeding and methods for creating modifications in plant genomes.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Yajie Niu, Randall William Shultz, Maria Margarita D. Unson, Michael Andreas Kock, John P. Casey, Jr.
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Patent number: 11624072Abstract: Materials and methods for creating canola (e.g., Brassica napus) lines having oil with increased oleic acid content are provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: CellectisInventors: Wenzheng Zhang, Feng Zhang