Patents by Inventor Theunis E. M. Odendaal

Theunis E. M. Odendaal 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).

  • Method of improving yield and vigor of plants
    Patent number: 7687434
    Abstract: A method of improving the yield and vigor of agronomic plants, in particular leguminous plants such as soybeans, involves treating such plants and/or the propagation material of plants with a composition that includes an active agent, such as a fungicide, that has no significant activity against fungal plant pathogens of the treated plant. When the plant is not wheat, a preferred agent of this type is 4,5-dimethyl-N-(2-propenyl)-2-(trimethylsilyl)-3-thiophenecarboxamide (silthiofam). Plants and plant propagation material, such as seeds, that have been treated by the novel method are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Maurice R. De Billot, Schalk Van Wyk, Theunis E. M. Odendaal, Dennis Paul Phillion, Jeffrey S. Coultas, Ernest F. Sanders, Greg A. Penner, Jawed Asrar, Michael K. Stern
  • Method of improving yield and vigor of plants
    Publication number: 20030114308
    Abstract: A method of improving the yield and vigor of agronomic plants, in particular leguminous plants such as soybeans, involves treating such plants and/or the propagation material of plants with a composition that includes an active agent, such as a fungicide, that has no significant activity against fungal plant pathogens of the treated plant. When the plant is not wheat, a preferred agent of this type is 4,5-dimethyl-N-(2-propenyl)-2-(trimethylsilyl)-3-thiophenecarboxamide (silthiofam). Plants and plant propagation material, such as seeds, that have been treated by the novel method are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Maurice R. De Billot, Schalk Van Wyk, Theunis E.M. Odendaal, Dennis Paul Phillion, Jeffrey S. Coultas, Ernest F. Sanders, Greg A. Penner, Jawed Asrar, Michael K. Stern