Patents Examined by Wayne Zhong
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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
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Patent number: 11622517Abstract: The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095519. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095519. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095519 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095519 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Sidney Perry
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Patent number: 11613761Abstract: T-DNA for expression of a target gene in a plant, wherein the T-DNA comprises a left and a right border element and at least one expression cassette comprising a promoter, operatively linked thereto a target gene, and downstream thereof a terminator, wherein the length of the T-DNA, measured from left to right border element and comprising the target gene, has a length of at least 30000 bp.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: Bioriginal Food & Science Corporation, BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Toralf Senger, Laurent Marty, Irene Kunze, Heiko Haertel, Steven Craig Bremmer, Steven D. Breazeale, Joerg Bauer, Patricia Vrinten, Sten Stymne, Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz, John A. McElver, Dietrich Rein, Carl Andre
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Patent number: 11613762Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of plant molecular biology and relates to plants having a modified lipid metabolism and to methods for making such modified plants. In particular, the invention provides modified plants and parts thereof, including seeds, having an increased level of triacylglycerol (TAG), by means of a seed-specific expression in seed tissues during seed filling of a nucleic acid encoding a translocator protein (TSPO) in said modified plants or parts thereof. The invention further relates to methods for modulating lipid metabolism in plants and for producing plants with a modified lipid metabolism. The invention also provides constructs, vectors and host cells useful in the methods of the invention, and further relates to products obtained from the modified plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Henri Batoko, Patrick Moreau
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Patent number: 11608505Abstract: It was found that it is possible to construct a genome-edited plant in which no exogenous gene is incorporated in a genome by performing negative selection using morphological defects and the like as indices in a regenerated plant originated from a plant cell in which a gene that induces regeneration of the plant and a gene of the genome editing enzyme are introduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: RIKENInventors: Naoyuki Umemoto, Kazuki Saito
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Patent number: 11608507Abstract: The present disclosure provides cultivated tomato plants exhibiting increased resistance to Mi-1 resistance-breaking root-knot nematodes. Such plants comprise novel recombinant chromosomal segments comprising alleles associated with disease resistance from Solanum pimpinellifolium on chromosome 1 and/or chromosome 6. In certain aspects, compositions and methods for producing, breeding, detecting, and selecting plants or germplasm with an increased disease resistance phenotype are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Kelli M. Durham, Susana García Andrés, Maria Dolores Hernandez, Scott J. Huesgen, Andrea K. Knox, Bram Rozier, Menno Ter Maat, Sjoerd van der Ent, Ruth A. Wagner
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Patent number: 11591605Abstract: A method for editing a plant genome includes coating a microparticle with at least one type of nucleic acid and/or at least one type of protein, introducing a deletion, insertion, or substitution into a target site in the genome of a plant by bombarding a shoot apex of the plant with the coated microparticle using a gene gun, growing the shoot apex bombarded with the coated microparticle to obtain a plant body, and selecting a genome-edited plant body from the plant body. The shoot apex of the plant is selected from the group consisting of a shoot apex of an embryo of a fully mature seed, a shoot apex of a young bud of a tuber, and a shoot apex of a terminal bud or a lateral bud.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Kaneka CorporationInventors: Haruyasu Hamada, Yozo Nagira, Ryuji Miki, Naoaki Taoka, Ryozo Imai
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Patent number: 11572569Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transgenic plant comprising one or more nucleotide sequences encoding polypeptides selected from photosystem II subunit S (PsbS), zeaxanthin epoxidase (ZEP), and violaxanthin de-epoxidase (VDE), operably linked to at least one expression control sequence. Expression vectors for making transgenic plants, and methods for increasing biomass production and/or carbon fixation and/or growth in a plant comprising increasing expression of at least one of PsbS, ZEP and VDE polypeptides are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignees: The Board of Trustees of The University Of Illinois, The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Stephen P. Long, Johannes Kromdijk, Katarzyna Glowacka, Krishna K. Niyogi, Laurie Leonelli, Stephane T. Gabilly
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Patent number: 11570961Abstract: One embodiment relates to seed and plants of lettuce variety Paraiso. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of lettuce variety Paraiso, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another lettuce plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Salinas Valley Seeds, Inc.Inventor: David Wiley Duke
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Patent number: 11560568Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for introducing transgenic target sites for Site Specific Integration (SSI) and/or polynucleotides of interest into at least one double-strand break target site of a double-strand-break inducing agent in a genomic window of a plant genome. Also provided are methods and compositions for producing a complex trait locus in a genomic window of a plant comprising at least one transgenic target site for site specific integration integrated in at least double-strand-break target site. The double-strand-break target site can be, but is not limited to, a target site for a zinc finger endonuclease, an engineered endonuclease, a meganuclease, a TALENs and/or a Cas endonuclease. The genomic window of said plant can comprise at least one genomic locus of interest such as a trait cassette, a transgene, a mutated gene, a native gene, an edited gene or a site-specific integration (SSI) target site.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Inventors: Andrew Mark Cigan, Huirong Gao, Zhan-Bin Liu, Jasdeep Mutti, Dean Podlich, Christopher Jay Scelonge
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Patent number: 11542513Abstract: Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) plants exhibiting resistance to Nasonovia ribisnigri biotype Nr:1 are provided, together with methods of producing, identifying, or selecting plants or germplasm with a Nasonovia ribisnigri biotype Nr:1 resistance phenotype. Such plants include lettuce plants comprising introgressed genomic regions conferring pest resistance. Compositions, including novel polymorphic markers for detecting plants comprising introgressed loci, are further provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Gerard N. Koorevaar, Robyn L. Morgan, Hieronymus J. M. van der Laan, Vivian R. Van Oosten, Rosa I. Weber
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Patent number: 11540475Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X08P423 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08P423 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08P423 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08P423, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08P423 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08P423 and methods of using maize variety X08P423 are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Inventors: Russell Fox, Elliot Lee Heffner, Gary Edward Henke, Sara Jane Lira, Goran Srnic, Leah Viesselmann Stirling, Tara Luana Barrett Tarnowski
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Patent number: 11530416Abstract: The present invention discloses a Prunus persica polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein 1 (PpPGIP1) gene, and a cloning method and use thereof. The Prunus persica polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein 1 PpPGIP1 gene has a nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and a protein encoded by the Prunus persica polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein 1 (PpPGIP1) gene has an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The cloning method includes the following steps: (1) extracting total RNA from a peach, and subjecting the total RNA to reverse transcription to obtain cDNA, which serves as a template; (2) designing primers based on the PpPGIP1 gene sequence; and (3) Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) amplification: conducting PCR amplification to obtain a PpPGIP1 gene amplification product.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: NINGBO UNIVERSITYInventors: Xingfeng Shao, Yingying Wei, Yihui Mao, Yi Chen, Shu Jiang
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Patent number: 11530419Abstract: The present disclosure provides an isolated, recombinant, or synthetic polynucleotide comprising a FIT1 protein, and homologs, fragments, and variations thereof. The disclosure further relates to transgenic plants, plant parts, and plant cells comprising one or more of these polynucleotides, and exhibit resistance or tolerance to a pathogen, such as Phakopsora pachyrhizi. The disclosure further relates to methods of genetically engineering a pathogen resistance or tolerance trait in a plant, plant part, or plant cell, comprising targeted gene editing of a FIT1 homolog, and plants produced therefrom. The disclosure further relates to methods for identifying new functional FIT1 genes and/or alleles thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Fortiphyte, Inc.Inventors: Alexander Christiaan Schultink, Laura A. Wetzel
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Patent number: 11525144Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., HEXIMA LIMITEDInventors: Lu Liu, Amy Lum, Azalea S. Ong, Eric Schepers, Ingrid Udranszky, Xiaohong Zhong
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Patent number: 11518997Abstract: Improved methods and means are provided to modify in a targeted manner the genome of a plant cell or plant at a predefined site via bacterial transformation.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED US LLCInventor: Katelijn D'Halluin
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Patent number: 11503837Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of producing particular metabolites of interest by engineered crop plants such as transgenic crop plants. Provided are methods that are easily applicable by farmers to determine when the metabolites of interest hake reached an optimal content in the plant. These methods also help to facilitate decisions about the timeframe for preparing harvest or harvesting the engineered crop plant.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Carl Andre, Anthony J. Cavender
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Patent number: 11490579Abstract: New lettuce variety designated ‘Casey’ is described. ‘Casey’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.Inventors: Petrus Cornelis Johannes Conijn, Magali Lemont
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Patent number: 11492640Abstract: Pesticidal proteins exhibiting toxic activity against Coleopteran, Lepidopteran, Hemipteran, and Thysanopteran pest species are disclosed, and include, but are not limited to, TIC6280, TIC6281, TIC6282, TIC6283, TIC8808, TIC9480, TIC9257, TIC7106, TIC7017, TIC7107, TIC7108, TIC7109, TIC7110, TIC7111, TIC7589, TIC9258, and TIC9259. DNA constructs are provided which contain a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding the pesticidal proteins provided. Transgenic plants, plant cells, seed, and plant parts resistant to Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Hemipteran and Thysanopteran infestation are provided which contain recombinant nucleic acid sequences encoding the disclosed pesticidal proteins. Methods for detecting the presence of the recombinant nucleic acid sequences or the protein of the present invention in a biological sample, and methods of controlling Coleopteran, Lepidopteran, Hemipteran, and Thysanopteran species pests using the disclosed pesticidal proteins are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: David J. Bowen, Catherine A. Chay, Todd A. Ciche, Stanislaw Flasinski, Arlene R. Howe, Jason S. Milligan, James K. Roberts, Yong Yin