Patents by Inventor Anthony John Conner

Anthony John Conner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • True breeding transgenics from plants heterozygous for transgene insertions
    Publication number: 20040025201
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for biasing a crop plant which is heterozygous for a transgene towards the production of seeds which carry the transgene comprising the step of contacting the crop plant containing a gene construct comprising the transgene coding for resistance to a specific phytotoxin with the specific phytotoxin one or more times during the life of the crop plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research Lim
    Inventor: Anthony John Conner
  • True breeding transgenics from plants heterozygous for transgene insertions
    Patent number: 6476291
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for biasing a crop plant which is heterozygous for a transgene towards the production of seeds which carry the transgene comprising the step of contacting the crop plant containing a gene construct comprising the transgene coding for resistance to a specific phytotoxin with the specific phytotoxin one or more times during the life of the crop plant. The method achieves this through selective inhibition of phytotoxin-sensitive plant ovules, embryos and pollen. The method has particular application to the production of open pollinated and synthetic varieties of crop plants, such as alfalfa synthetic varieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: New Zealand Institute for Food and Crop Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony John Conner
  • True breeding transgenics from plants heterozygous for transgene insertions
    Patent number: 6057496
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for biasing a crop plant which is heterozygous for a transgene towards the production of seeds which carry the transgene comprising the step of contacting the crop plant containing a gene construct comprising the transgene coding for resistance to a specific phytotoxin with the specific phytotoxin one or more times during the life of the crop plant.The method achieves this through selective inhibition of phytotoxin-sensitive plant ovules, embryos and pollen. The method has particular application to the production of open pollinated and synthetic varieties of crop plants, such as alfalfa synthetic varieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research Limited
    Inventor: Anthony John Conner
  • Hybrid seed production
    Patent number: 5959173
    Abstract: The invention relates to improved methods of hybrid seed production. More particularly it relates to the use of one (or two) phytotoxic chemical resistant genes in the male (and female) parent in a hybridization process, followed by uncontrolled pollination and dosing the resultant hybrids with the one (or two) phytotoxic chemicals to eliminate plants arising from unwanted contaminating seeds and thus producing pure F.sub.1 hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Her Majesty The Queen in Right of New Zealand, c/o Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, etc.
    Inventors: Thomas Pattinson Palmer, Anthony John Conner