Manipulating Seed Or Seedling Patents (Class 47/58.1SE)
  • Publication number: 20120222158
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPID3649, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPID3649 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPID3649, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPID3649, and plants produced according to these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventor: William H. Goodwin
  • Publication number: 20120222161
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated NPID6897, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line NPID6897 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line NPID6897, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line NPID6897, and plants produced according to these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventor: Benjamin Aaron Ford
  • Patent number: 8245439
    Abstract: A seed sampling system includes a seed transport configured to hold multiple individual seeds together as a group and transport the multiple individual seeds together as the group, and to allow the multiple individual seeds to be oriented, substantially simultaneously, while the multiple individual seeds are being held in the seed transport. The seed sampling system also includes a seed sampling subsystem configured to remove tissue from the oriented multiple individual seeds. And, a method for removing tissue from the multiple individual seeds includes loading the multiple individual seeds in the seed transport, orienting the multiple individual seeds in the seed transport substantially simultaneously, and removing tissue from the oriented multiple individual seeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Kevin L. Deppermann, Lee Yannakakis, Andrew M. Singleton, Angela R. Koestel, David W. Finley, Brian J. Forinash, Allen N. Ondes, Sam R. Eathington, Heather M. Forbes, Bruce J. Schnicker, Jason K. Bull
  • Patent number: 8225548
    Abstract: The invention consists of a method of planting seeds of plants selected for enhanced colony growth attributes in a hill plot seeding method to produce an enhanced commercial yield of cereal grain as well as a method of producing seeds selected for enhanced colony growth attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Inventors: Wayne L. McProud, Gene Elbert McProud, Wayne L. McProud, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20120180386
    Abstract: A method of accumulating a quantity of seeds having a desired fatty acid characteristic is provided. The method includes removing a sample from each seed in a population of seeds while maintaining the germination viability of the seeds; contacting each sample with a solvent to form a mixture comprising fatty acid methyl esters; analyzing the mixture of fatty acid methyl esters from each sample to determine the fatty acid profile of the corresponding seed; selecting seeds having at least one desired fatty acid characteristic based on the analysis of the samples removed from the seeds; cultivating plants from the selected seeds; recovering seeds from the cultivated plants, wherein the recovered seeds are a subsequent generation of the selected seeds; and repeating the operations for one or more generations of the recovered seeds to thereby accumulate the quantity of seeds having the desired fatty acid characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Kevin L. DEPPERMANN, Luis A. JURADO, Dutt V. VINJAMOORI, Pradip K. DAS
  • Patent number: 8220200
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of extending the duration of pollen availability by planting a section of male parent seeds that includes alternating groups of male seeds adjacent to a section of female parent seeds in a field. The male seeds are planted and/or conditioned so that one group of male seeds produces plants that generally shed pollen at a different time than plants produced by the one or more other groups of male seeds. In some embodiments, the field may include multiple male and female sections and the male seed groups may alternate between sections so as to create a checkerboard pattern of male seed groups within the field. In some embodiments, the field may be planted with the aid of a positional data system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Hunter, Scott M. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20120159665
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred parent line FDS 15-2102. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventor: Douglas Heath
  • Publication number: 20120131849
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for storing seeds, comprising the step of immersing seeds in an oily substance having a boiling point of 100° C. or higher. According to the method for storing seeds of the present invention, the germination rate and the germination vigor of seeds can be stably maintained for a long period of time in a simple manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Inventors: Masanori Asada, Tadashi Kanaya, Masaaki Nakatsuji, Ryosei Kamaguchi, Yuzuri Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 8181388
    Abstract: A method of dressing seeds is disclosed. The method utilizes a seed treatment slurry which is applied to seed by subjecting the seed and seed treatment slurry to a dual asymmetrical centrifugal mixing motion. The method provides uniformly dressed seeds and is suitable for dressing small seed lots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Richard A. Berger
  • Patent number: 8181389
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for improving the germination of manufactured seeds. The methods comprise the step of subjecting a manufactured seed to at least one change in ambient pressure for a period of time sufficient to generate a conditioned manufactured seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser NR Company
    Inventors: William Carlson, Craig N. Cootsona, Jessie Lynne Wetzbarger
  • Publication number: 20120124687
    Abstract: This disclosure provides perennial ryegrass plants having determinate-stolons developed by subjecting large number of perennial ryegrass plants to intense traffic. This grass can quickly repair (high regeneration potential) itself from traffic damage, and has good turf qualities compared to other perennial ryegrasses. The high regeneration potential gives it the ability to quickly repair itself from traffic damage and fill in open areas in turf. Methods of using the perennial ryegrass grass plants and seed are also provided. This grass is suitable for use in turf, for example turf that is exposed to significant traffic. This disclosure also provides methods of selecting for such grass plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph K. Wipff, Devesh Singh
  • Publication number: 20120124698
    Abstract: The invention concerns a novel method for making herbicide-tolerant plants, in particular to HPPD inhibiting herbicides, the nucleic acid sequences coding for enzymes capable of being used in said method, expression cassettes containing them and transgenic plants comprising at least one of said expression cassettes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Bayer CropScience S.A.S.
    Inventors: Olivier Zink, Eric Paget, Anne Rolland, Alain Sailland, Georges Freyssinet
  • Publication number: 20120110689
    Abstract: A cotton variety, designated P07X.8213.RF, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety P07X.8213.RF, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety P07X.8213.RF with itself or with another cotton plant, and hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety P07X.8213.RF with another cotton variety or plant and to methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8213.RF, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety P07X.8213.RF and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: PHYTOGEN SEED COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: David M. Anderson, Joel F. Mahill
  • Publication number: 20120096599
    Abstract: Recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides useful for improvement of plants are provided. The disclosed recombinant polynucleotides and recombinant polypeptides find use in production of transgenic plants to produce plants having improved properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: David K. Kovalic, Yihua Zhou, Yongwei Cao, Scott E. Andersen, Michael D. Edgerton, Jingdong Liu
  • Patent number: 8156686
    Abstract: A method for bioactive treatment of biological material from a plant source by exposure to one or more electromagnetic pulses are described. The biological material is in a target irradiation area. At least one electric pulse is generated. At least one electromagnetic pulse is then generated responsive to the at least one electric pulse. The at least one electromagnetic pulse generated to have parameters in common with that of natural lightning's electromagnetic pulses. The biological material is irradiated with the at least one electromagnetic pulse for bioactivation of the biological material for enhancement of the one or more growth characteristics thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventor: Volodymyr Zrodnikov
  • Publication number: 20120079626
    Abstract: We describe a plant lipase polypeptide and nucleic acids that encode said polypeptide which has homology to a patatin and which has phospholipase and/or triacylglycerol lipase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF YORK
    Inventor: Peter Eastmond
  • Patent number: 8132363
    Abstract: Articles-of-manufacturing which comprise (a) a germinateable seed having a germinating end and an apparent germination polarity; or alternatively a germinateable seed having a hole formed therein; and (b) a cage or, respectively alternatively, a member securing the germinateable seed; the cage having a structure such that when securing the germinateable seed, the cage not inhibiting or slowing a germination process of the germinateable seed; the member is secured to the hole. Seedlings which comprise the cage or member engaged therewith. Articles-of-manufacturing which comprise the seed or seedling, the cage or member and a display article attached to the cage or member. Methods of making same and of displaying the display article in context of the seedling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventor: Eyal Iter
  • Publication number: 20120054888
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the lettuce line designated RX06462133. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of lettuce line RX06462133, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing a plant of lettuce line RX06462133 with itself or with another lettuce plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of lettuce line RX06462133, including the gametes of such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventor: Hieronymus J. M. van der Laan
  • Patent number: 8112935
    Abstract: A method for producing a powder containing xylitol crystal particles and another polyol including a mixture containing a xylitol syrup and another polyol, whose dry material content is equal to or greater than 95% by weight, xylitol content ranges from 85 to 97.5% by weight and the other polyol content ranges at least from 15 to 2.5% by weight with respects to the dry material. The method includes: obtaining the mixture by simultaneously dispersing the xylitol and the other polyol syrup and xylitol-containing germs in an open rotating vessel containing xylitol-based granules, mixing the xylitol and the other polyol syrup and xylitol-containing germs on the surface of the xylitol-containing germs contained in the vessel, removing the xylitol-based granules and the other polyol from the vessel and crystallizing the xylitol and other polyol contained in the granules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Roquette Freres
    Inventors: Pierrick Duflot, Baptiste Boit
  • Publication number: 20120005773
    Abstract: This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced trait.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Eric D. Aasen, Mark Scott Abad, Edwards Allen, Thandoni Rao Ambika, Veena S. Anil, Alice Clara Augustine, Stephanie L. Back, Pranesh Badami, Amarjit Basra, Kraig L. Brustad, Molian Deng, Todd Dezwaan, Charles Dietrich, Stephen M. Duff, Karen K. Gabbert, Steve He, Bill L. Hendrix, Hongwu Jia, Vidya Kammaradi Ramanath Bhat, Hongwu Jia, Vidya Kammaradi Ramanath Bhat, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Kevin R. Kosola, Kempagangaiah Krishnamurthy, Ganesh Kumar, Saritha V. Kuriakose, Shantala Lakkanna, Mark E. Leibman, Linda Lutfiyya, Savitha Madappa, Sivalinganna Manjunath, Robert J. Meister, Bellur Narasimba Prasad, Sasha Preuss, Qungang Qi, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra, S. Sangeetha, Scott Saracco, Chitresh Sharma, Vijay K. Sharma, Rajani Monnanda Somaiah, Padmini Sudarshana, Rebecca L. Thompson-Mize, Srikanth Venkatachalayya, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Huai Wang, Jingrui Wu, Xiaoyun Wu, Xiaofeng Sean Yang, Qin Zeng, Jianmin Zhao
  • Publication number: 20110283416
    Abstract: The present invention relates to materials and methods for the expression of a gene of interest preferably in seeds of plants, even more specifically in oilseed plants. In particular, the invention provides an expression cassette for regulating seed-preferential expression in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicants: LE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, BAYER BIOSCIENCE N.V.
    Inventors: Vincent Sauvephane, Franck Pinot, Daniele Werck, Jürgen Ehlting
  • Publication number: 20110258743
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying soybean plants that are tolerant, have improved tolerance or are susceptible to iron deficient growth conditions. The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct disease-tolerant plants or identify and counterselect disease-susceptible plants. Soybean plants that display tolerance or improved tolerance to Phytophthora root rot infection that are generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Scott Sebastian, Hong Lu, Feng Han, Martin Fabrizius, Leon Streit
  • Publication number: 20110225881
    Abstract: A device and method for exposing vegetative biomaterial to the quantum resonance interference process to enhance at least one desired attribute of the treated vegetative material. The method includes the steps of subjecting vegetative biomaterial to a quantum interference field for an interval sufficient to interact with at least a portion of the biomaterial contained therein, and allowing the treated vegetative biomaterial to remain dormant for an interval prior to subsequent vegetative action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventor: William Levengood
  • Publication number: 20110209239
    Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01533588 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred tomato line FDR 15-2090. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01533588 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventor: DOUGLAS HEATH
  • Publication number: 20110185455
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant biochemistry and genetics. More specifically the invention relates to nucleic acid sequences from plant cells, in particular, genomic DNA sequences from Arabidopsis thaliana plants. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules present in non-coding regions as well as nucleic acid molecules that encode proteins and fragments of proteins. In addition, the invention also encompasses proteins and fragments of proteins so encoded and antibodies capable of binding these proteins or fragments. The invention also relates to methods of using the nucleic acid molecules, proteins and fragments of proteins, and antibodies, for example for genome mapping, gene identification and analysis, plant breeding, preparation of constructs for use in plant gene expression, and transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Yongwei CAO, William E. TIMBERLAKE
  • Publication number: 20110154525
    Abstract: The invention provides DNA compositions that relate to transgenic insect resistant maize plants. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the maize DP-040416-8 event based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct inserted into the maize genome and the DNA sequences flanking the insertion site. Kits and conditions useful in conducting the assays are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Timothy M. Nowatzki, Douglas S. Nubel, M. Alejandra Pascual, James C. Register, III, Christopher J. Scelonge, Gregory J. Young, Joshua K. Young, Cathy Xiaoyan Zhong
  • Publication number: 20110154524
    Abstract: The invention provides DNA compositions that relate to transgenic insect resistant maize plants. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the maize DP-032316-8 event based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct inserted into the maize genome and the DNA sequences flanking the insertion site. Kits and conditions useful in conducting the assays are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Timothy M. Nowatzki, Douglas S. Nubel, M. Alejandra Pascual, James C. Register, III, Christopher J. Scelonge, Gregory J. Young, Joshua K. Young, Cathy Xiaoyan Zhong
  • Publication number: 20110154526
    Abstract: The invention provides DNA compositions that relate to transgenic insect resistant maize plants. Also provided are assays for detecting the presence of the maize DP-043A47-3 event based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct inserted into the maize genome and the DNA sequences flanking the insertion site. Kits and conditions useful in conducting the assays are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicants: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Timothy M. Nowatzki, Douglas S. Nubel, M. Alejandra Pascual, James C. Register, III, Christopher J. Scelonge, Gregory J. Young, Joshua K. Young, Cathy Xiaoyan Zhong
  • Publication number: 20110126327
    Abstract: The application discloses non-naturally occurring barley plants with increased resistance to herbicides, particularly imidazolinone herbicides. Also disclosed are the barley seeds per se, an isolated nucleic acid incorporating the nucleic acid sequence conferring imidazolinone resistance, a method of inhibiting weed growth in the vicinity of a barley plant, an a method of growing a barley crop. Seeds have been deposited at NCIMB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Christopher Pittock, David Moody, Michael Mateme
  • Patent number: 7937890
    Abstract: The present invention discloses and claims methods and devices for the rapid mechanical isolation of monocot plant tissues suitable for transformation or tissue culture. The invention includes mechanical devices for substantially isolating target plant tissues for use as transformable explants, and propagation of transgenic plants and plant tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Whitney Adams, Brandon Davis, Lubomyr Kucher, Brenda Lowe, Michael Spencer, Michael T. Mann
  • Publication number: 20110056129
    Abstract: Methods for improving the agriculture of sesame, an Improved Non-Dehiscent (IND) sesame class and methods for breeding IND are disclosed. The IND sesame holds its seed in capsules for four or more weeks after ideal harvesting time, during extended adverse weather conditions, thus offering the grower flexibility as to when to harvest. The methods also improve current agricultural methods for growing sesame by allowing growers to leave the crop in the field for a longer period of time without the loss of seeds and concomitant reduced yield. The grower is able to reduce the ratio of combine harvesters required for mechanical harvest of sesame crops. Further, a method of growing crops in geographical areas previously unsuitable for sesame agriculture is disclosed. IND allows ready release of seed from the capsule during mechanized harvesting with minimal broken seed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: SESACO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Derald Ray Langham
  • Publication number: 20110041400
    Abstract: In intensive agriculture it is important to provide high-quality seeds with a good, rapid and uniform germination. The invention relates to a method for treating plant seeds. The invention also relates to a device for treating plant seeds by applying such a method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: SYNTHESIS B.V.
    Inventors: Jose Trias Vila, Barthelomeus Johannes Theodorus Smit, Wilhelmus Antonius Maria Van Lith
  • Patent number: 7877926
    Abstract: An automated seed sampler includes a sampling station; a sampler for removing material from a seed in the sampling station; a seed conveyer for conveying the seed from the sampling station to a compartment in a seed tray; and a conveyor for conveying the material removed from the seed to a corresponding compartment in a sample tray. The method of the present invention comprises feeding seeds individually to a sampling station, removing a sample from the seed in the sampling station; conveying the sample to a compartment in a sample tray, and conveying the seed to a corresponding compartment in a seed tray. The samples can be tested, and the seeds can be sorted according to the results of the testing of their corresponding samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Kevin L. Deppermann
  • Patent number: 7849632
    Abstract: An automated system for sampling seeds generally includes an automated sampler operable to remove a tissue sample from a seed, a seed tray configured to receive from the automated sampler the seed from which the tissue sample is removed, and a sample tray configured to receive the tissue sample removed from the seed. A table supports the seed tray and the sample tray, and an index mechanism is operable to move the table to bring the seed tray into position for receiving from the automated sampler the seed from which the tissue sample is removed, and to bring the sample tray into position for receiving the tissue sample removed from the seed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Kevin L. Deppermann, Michael W. Petersen
  • Publication number: 20100306882
    Abstract: The present invention concerns hybrid Lactuca sativa seeds which have a male sterile genotype and which are heterozygous for at least one distinct gene which provides plants derived from said seeds with a distinct phenotype. The invention also concerns a method for producing hybrid Lactuca sativa seeds, comprising a step for culture, in an enclosed medium, of phenotypically male sterile plants and phenotypically male fertile plants, a step for pollinization by diptera introduced into the closed medium upon flowering of the plants, and a step for harvesting the seeds produced by the male sterile plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Hervé Michel
  • Patent number: 7836631
    Abstract: A method for creating a verified food source comprises planting verified seed in accordance with planting protocols to create a crop, growing the crop in accordance with crop protocols, harvesting the crop in accordance with harvest protocols to obtain grain, storing the grain in accordance with storage protocols, inspecting the grain to identify grain that meets predetermined grain standards, verifying the grain that meets the predetermined grain standards, feeding the verified grain to a certified food source, fostering the food source in accordance with fostering protocols, inspecting the food source to identify food source that meets the fostering protocols, and verifying the food source that meets the fostering protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Innovative Agricultural Concepts, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel P. Kerkhoff, Daniel B. Knoll
  • Publication number: 20100281772
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the yield of harvested seed in plants by the application of selected doses of a physical plant stressor such as UV-C light (253.7 nm), X-rays, gamma ray, and electron beam irradiation to sowing seeds. This method can be used alone to enhance seed yield or in combination with standard seed treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: HORIZON SEED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Lindsay Wilson, Glenn Frederick Heidinger
  • Publication number: 20100242358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of imparting pathogen resistance to plants. This involves applying a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein in a non-infectious form to a plant seed under conditions where the polypeptide or protein contacts cells of the plant seed. The present invention is also directed to a pathogen resistance imparting plant seed. Alternatively, transgenic plant seeds containing a DNA molecule encoding a hypersensitive response elicitor polypeptide or protein can be planted in soil and a plant can be propagated from the planted seed under conditions effective to impart pathogen resistance to the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventors: Dewen Qiu, Zhong-Min Wei, Steven V. Beer
  • Publication number: 20100236143
    Abstract: A process for the propagation of Theobroma cacao L. by somatic embryogenesis using explant material which is subjected to a) primary embryogenesis in the dark in a solid culture medium causing induction and expression to produce primary embryos, b) secondary embryogenesis i) in which the primary embryos are treated in the dark in a solid or liquid culture medium to produce and multiply embryogenic callus followed by ii) treatment of the embryogenic callus in the dark in a suitable liquid culture medium causing expression of the embryogenic callus to produce further new secondary embryos, c) pre-germination of the secondary embryos in a Petri dish on a solid medium, or in a bioreactor in a liquid medium, into pre-germinated secondary embryos at the cotyledonary stage, d) ex-vitro germination of the pre-germinated secondary embryos at the cotyledonary stage by sowing directly on a culture substrate in the greenhouse to produce the plantlets, and e) development of the plantlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: NESTEC S.A.
    Inventors: Bruno Jean-Marie Florin, Bernard Masseret, Caroline Denise Monique Vachet
  • Publication number: 20100235949
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method to enhance germination of seeds and/or growth of plants or plant parts and/or plant yield by subjecting seeds to a pulsed radiofrequency electrical field (PRF).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Menno Emanuel Sluijter, Alexandre Jose Leonardo Teixeira
  • Publication number: 20100210460
    Abstract: Insect refuge strategies are described for the management of insect resistance development. The present invention relates generally to the control of pests that cause damage to crop plants, and in particular to corn plants, by their feeding activities directed to root damage, and more particularly to the control of such plant pests by ensuring, through the seed production process, that sufficient refuge seeds are present in a given set of seeds to reduce the rate of development of resistant pests, thereby eliminating the problems that may arise with regard to refuge compliance. In addition, the treatment of such seed with a chemical or peptide-associated pesticide prior to planting the seed is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicants: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Peter D. Coaldrake, John L. Flexner, Laura S. Higgins, Stephen A. Lefko, Timothy M. Nowatzki
  • Publication number: 20100186297
    Abstract: The present invention relates the methods, compositions and devices for priming of plant seed, preferably seed of crop plants, and seeds obtained with said methods, compositions and devices, wherein the metabolic activity necessary for germination of the seed is not controlled by water but rather by the partial oxygen pressure and/or partial carbon dioxide pressure. In the methods of the invention the partial oxygen or carbon dioxide pressure may be measured by means of an oxygen/carbon dioxide sensitive fluorescent dye. The invention further relates to processes for producing a primed seed lot of a plant species and to a container comprising primed seed under an atmosphere with a partial oxygen pressure that is below the critical oxygen pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: FYTAGORAS
    Inventors: Albert Van Duijn, Johan Van Asbrouck
  • Patent number: 7748163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating seeds, comprising the following steps: (a) a sterilization step wherein, for 0.1 to 60 seconds and at a minimum pressure of 0.5 bar absolute, the seeds are contacted with a condensing medium having a condensation temperature of 80-200 DEG C, wherein the medium condenses on the seeds and the temperature of the surface of the seeds is raised to 200 DEG C at most; and (b) a cooling step wherein the sterilized seeds obtained in step (a) are cooled, wherein the temperature of the surface of the seeds is lowered, within 30 seconds at most, to 50 DEG C at most, and wherein the conditions of steps (a) and (b) are set such that the germination capacity of the seeds is relatively preserved or increases. The invention further relates to seeds obtainable with the method according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno
    Inventors: Hendricus Cornelis van Deventer, Albert van Duijn, Rudy Mathias Henricus Heijmans
  • Publication number: 20100154299
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide seeds coated with an antagonistic microorganism, which have high-level disease control effects and high preservation stability. The present invention makes it possible to drastically elevate the survival percentage of an antagonistic microorganism in seeds coated with the antagonistic microorganism by vacuum inoculating seeds with the antagonistic microorganism, drying seeds inoculated with the antagonistic microorganism under low-temperature, low-humidity conditions, or a combination of these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Takeshi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Kenji Takebayashi, Masataka Aino
  • Publication number: 20100126065
    Abstract: A method of improving germination of plant seeds, comprising a low temperature contact process of allowing plant seeds to contact plant growth regulating agents and water at a temperature lower than 10° C. wherein the treatment time in the low temperature contact process is shorter than 24 hours, and a method of improving germination of plant seeds, comprising (1) a low temperature contact process of allowing plant seeds to contact plant growth regulating agents and water at a temperature lower than 10° C., and (2) a low temperature preservation process of preserving, after the first process, the plant seeds at a temperature lower than 10° C., wherein the sum of the treatment time in the low temperature contact process and the treatment time in the low temperature preservation process is shorter than 24 hours; and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Sumika Agrotech Company, Limited
    Inventors: Ryo Nishimura, Yasutaka Soeda
  • Publication number: 20100122384
    Abstract: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from cotton are disclosed. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The disclosed ESTs have utility in the development of new strategies for understanding critical plant developmental and metabolic pathways. The disclosed ESTs have particular utility in isolating genes and promoters, identifying and mapping the genes involved in developmental and metabolic pathways, and determining gene function. Sequence homology analyses using the ESTs provided in the present invention, will result in more efficient gene screening for desirable agronomic traits. An expanding database of these select pieces of the plant genomics puzzle will quickly expand the knowledge necessary for subsequent functional validation, a key limitation in current plant biotechnology efforts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Jill Deikman, Paul C.C. Feng, Karen L. Fincher, Todd E. Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20100107492
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a method for preconditioning a whitetail deer forage plot. The disclosed whitetail deer forage plot preconditioning method includes the steps of: 1. selecting an area of soil to be preconditioned in a locale accessible to whitetail deer; and 2. sowing plant seed in the selected area of soil that includes Lapsana communis seed. In another aspect, the present disclosure is a method for preparing a seed blend for use in sowing a forage plot for whitetail deer. The seed blend preparation method includes the steps of: 1. selecting a seed type other than Lapsana communis seed for inclusion in the seed blend; and 2. combining a first quantity of plant seed of the selected seed type other than Lapsana communis seed with second quantity of Lapsana communis seed to thereby produce the seed blend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Sharif Adham Safwat
  • Publication number: 20100107491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of enhancing the yield of harvested seed in plants by the application of selected doses of a physical plant stressor such as UV-C light (253.7 nm), X-rays, gamma ray, and electron beam irradiation to sowing seeds. This method can be used alone to enhance seed yield or in combination with standard seed treatments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Charles Lindsay Wilson, Glenn Frederick Heidinger
  • Publication number: 20100100987
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant biochemistry. More specifically the invention relates to nucleic acid sequences from plant cells, in particular, nucleic acid sequences from maize and soybean associated with the tocopherol synthesis pathway enzymes. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules that encode proteins and fragments of proteins. In addition, the invention also encompasses proteins and fragments of proteins so encoded and antibodies capable of binding these proteins or fragments. The invention also relates to methods of using the nucleic acid molecules, proteins and fragments of proteins and antibodies, for example for genome mapping, gene identification and analysis, plant breeding, preparation of constructs for use in plant gene expression and transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Inventors: Barkur G. BHAT, Sekhar S. Boddupalli, Ganesh M. Kishore, Jingdong Liu, Shaukat H. Rangwala, Mylavarapu Venkatramesh
  • Patent number: 7694457
    Abstract: A process of mechanical separation of embryos from seeds for genetic transplantation employs counter-rotating cylinders together with one or more culling, hydration, separation, and viability testing steps to provide high-throughput of viable, transplantable tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Brian J. Martinell, Beth Jo Calabotta, Richard J. Heinzen, Richard F. Klemm, Dennis E. McCabe, Gail A. Roberts, Lori Ann Smith