Patents by Inventor H. Maelor Davies

H. Maelor Davies 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).

  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENETIC TRANSFORMATION OF PLANT CHLOROPLASTS
    Publication number: 20100319094
    Abstract: A method for plastid transformation of a plant cell includes providing a delivery construct for transferring a passenger construct into a plant cell plastid for expression of a foreign DNA of interest therein. The delivery construct includes a nucleotide sequence under the control of a suitable promoter, for encoding at least one fusion protein which is a chloroplast transit peptide and a DNA binding domain. The passenger construct includes a nucleotide sequence encoding at least one foreign protein of interest or fragment thereof to be expressed in the plant cell, under the control of a plastid-specific promoter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: INDU BHUSHAN MAITI, DEANE L. FALCONE, SUMITA RAHA, H. MAELOR DAVIES
  • Peptides with enhanced stability to protease degradation
    Patent number: 7214766
    Abstract: Disclosed are peptides that have enhanced stability against plant proteases and are useful in the control of plant diseases. The peptides also have the ability to protect other peptides, polypeptides or proteins from degradation by proteases of plant, fungal, viral, bacterial, insect or other origin. DNA encoding the peptides of the present invention can be co-expressed with other DNA encoding exogenous peptides in transgenic plants as a method for protecting foreign peptides from degradation by proteases. Also disclosed are nucleic acid sequences, microorganisms, plants, and compositions useful for the treatment of plant diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Everett, Qingshun Li, Christopher Lawrence, H. Maelor Davies
  • Peptides with enhanced stability to protease degradation
    Publication number: 20030131383
    Abstract: Disclosed are peptides that have enhanced stability against plant proteases and are useful in the control of plant diseases. The peptides also have the ability to protect other peptides, polypeptides or proteins from degradation by proteases of plant, fungal, viral, bacterial, insect or other origin. DNA encoding the peptides of the present invention can be co-expressed with other DNA encoding exogenous peptides in transgenic plants as a method for protecting foreign peptides from degradation by proteases. Also disclosed are nucleic acid sequences, microorganisms, plants, and compositions useful for the treatment of plant diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: InterLink Biotechnologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Everett, Qingshun Li, Christopher Lawrence, H. Maelor Davies
  • Superoxide dismutase expression in plants
    Patent number: 5538878
    Abstract: Plant species having enhanced superoxide dismutase activity as a result of transformation with a DNA expression cassette comprising an E. coli MnSOD gene are provided. Transportation of the expression product of the gene may be targeted to a specific cell organelle, such as the chloroplast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignees: Calgene, Inc., Procida
    Inventors: Bruce Thomas, H. Maelor Davies, Jean Kridl, Jeffery K. O'Neal, C. Jacques Van Assche