Patents Examined by Wayne Zhong
  • Patent number: 11820993
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.
    Inventors: Erik den Boer, Raoul Jacobus Johannes Maria Frijters
  • Patent number: 11813302
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Dietrich Rein, Jörg Bauer, Carl Andre
  • Patent number: 11802286
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: The Curators of the University of Missouri
    Inventors: Jay J. Thelen, Matthew Salie
  • Patent number: 11737407
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Mark Newell
  • Patent number: 11730103
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventors: William Joseph Laskar, Cristiano Lemes Da Silva, Kyle Jay Lively, Gregory Charles Marshall
  • Patent number: 11716944
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 11718845
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Erik William Clement, Yajie Niu, Frank Anthony Skraly
  • Patent number: 11700806
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Southwest Genetics, LLC
    Inventors: Davie Lee Brooks, II, Jon Cody Nickerson
  • Patent number: 11700808
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: H.M.Clause, Inc.
    Inventor: Sarah Smith
  • Patent number: 11700805
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGaA
    Inventor: David Pacheco Villalobos
  • Patent number: 11674152
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11667681
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: James V. Moroney, Marylou C. Machingura, Joanna N. Bajsa-Hirschel
  • Patent number: 11666013
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
    Inventor: Johan Van Zee
  • Patent number: 11661609
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhibing Lai, Hongze Wang, Jiabao Hou
  • Patent number: 11661607
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Monika Kloiber-Maitz, Silke Wieckhorst, Christof Bolduan, Milena Ouzunova
  • Patent number: 11641825
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Chibwe Chungu, Thomas Conrad Mack, Jeffrey S. Posch
  • Patent number: 11639507
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Thomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Pal Singh, Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 11634725
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventor: Nian Wang
  • Patent number: 11624071
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: INARI AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Yajie Niu, Randall William Shultz, Maria Margarita D. Unson, Michael Andreas Kock, John P. Casey, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11624072
    Abstract: Materials and methods for creating canola (e.g., Brassica napus) lines having oil with increased oleic acid content are provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Cellectis
    Inventors: Wenzheng Zhang, Feng Zhang