Patents by Inventor Marie-Pascale Doutriaux

Marie-Pascale Doutriaux 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 for obtaining plant varieties
    Publication number: 20040205839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated and purified DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide functionally involved in the DNA mismatch repair system of a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Marie-Pascale Doutriaux, Andreas Stefan Betzner, Georges Freyssinet, Pascal Perez
  • Composition and method for increased meiotic recombination in plants
    Publication number: 20040111764
    Abstract: The present invention provides an expression cassette comprising a meiotically active promoter operably linked to a polynucleotide encoding a recombinational DNA repair polypeptide, or fragment thereof, wherein said polynucleotide is capable of stimulating plant meiotic recombination when expressed into RNA and/or said polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Andreas Stefan Betzner, Eric Huttner, Pascual Perez, Marie-Pascale Doutriaux, Charles White
  • Isolated DNA that encodes an Arabidopsis thaliana MSH3 protein involved in DNA mismatch repair and a method of modifying the mismatch repair system in a plant transformed with the isolated DNA
    Patent number: 6734019
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isolated and purified DNA comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes a polypeptide functionally involved in the DNA mismatch repair system of a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Aventis Cropscience S.A
    Inventors: Marie-Pascale Doutriaux, Andreas Stefan Betzner, Georges Freyssinet, Pascal Perez