Method Of Breeding Involving A Mutation Step Patents (Class 800/270)
  • Patent number: 8450572
    Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 14163501 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 14163501, to the plants of soybean cultivar 14163501, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 14163501, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 14163501. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 14163501. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 14163501, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 14163501 with another soybean cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Eby
  • Patent number: 8445755
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XBP50001 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP50001, cells from soybean variety XBP50001, plants of soybean XBP50001, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP50001. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP50001 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP50001, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP50001, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP50001. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP50001 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20130091597
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a protein IPA1 related to plant architecture, its coding genes and uses, wherein the protein is 1) or 2) as follows: 1) the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence showed by sequence 1 in the sequence list; 2) the protein derived from the protein of 1) by substitution and/or deletion and/or addition of one or several amino acid residues in the amino acid sequence defined in 1) and relating to plant architecture. IPA1 gene can be used for molecular marker-assisted breeding, cultivating new rice varieties and improving rice yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jiayang Li, Qian Qian, Yonghong Wang, Yongqing Jiao, Dawei Xue, Guifu Liu, Jing Wang, Guojun Dong
  • Patent number: 8415534
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XB07Y11 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB07Y11, cells from soybean variety XB07Y11, plants of soybean XB07Y11, and plant parts of soybean variety XB07Y11. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB07Y11 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB07Y11, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB07Y11, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB07Y11. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB07Y11 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventors: Nadejda N. Krasheninnik, Martin A. Fabrizius, Bradley R. Hedges, Michael T. Roach, Paul A. Stephens
  • Patent number: 8410341
    Abstract: The gene encoding N-methylputrescine oxidase (MPO) and constructs comprising such DNA are provided, including methods of regulating MPO expression independently or with other alkaloid biosynthesis genes to modulate alkaloid production in plants and host cells. MPO genes or fragments thereof are useful for reducing pyrrolidine or tropane alkaloid production in plants, for increasing pyrrolidine or tropane alkaloid production in plants, and for producing an MPO enzyme in host cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Page, Enwu Liu
  • Publication number: 20130024986
    Abstract: A process of producing transgenic multi-cellular plants or parts thereof expressing a trait of interest that has a controlled distribution of said trait to progeny, comprising (i) producing a first plant or a cell thereof having in a first locus of a nuclear chromosome a first heterologous nucleotide sequence comprising a first fragment of a nucleotide sequence encoding said trait of interest, (ii) producing a second plant or a cell thereof having in a second locus of a nuclear chromosome homologous to said nuclear chromosome of step (i), a second heterologous nucleotide sequence comprising a second fragment of the nucleotide sequence encoding said trait of interest, and (iii) hybridising said first and said second plants or cells thereof to generate progeny exhibiting said functional trait of interest. Also disclosed is a process of producing hybrid seeds for agriculture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: ICON GENETICS GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Werner, Anatoly Giritch, Serik Eliby, Sylvestre Marillonnet, Victor Klimyuk, Yuri Gleba
  • Patent number: 8344229
    Abstract: New plants were created from a new and efficient method of intergeneric hybridization between the genus Argyranthemum as a female parent and a plant from I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a male parent. The plants were created by rescuing an embryo from the cross-pollination of a tetraploid or aneu-tetraploid Argyranthemum female parent with a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a male parent. The new plants often exhibited the perennial and multi-branched habit of the female Argyranthemum parent, with large capitula size and different ray floret colors, many not previously seen in Argyranthemum. When compared to Argyranthemum, the new plants possessed improved tolerance to high growing temperatures. In addition to providing the intergeneric hybrid plants and parts thereof, the invention provides methods for making such plants and methods for creating intergeneric hybrid plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Bonza Botanicals Pty ltd
    Inventor: Andrew Bernuetz
  • Patent number: 8338671
    Abstract: A novel soybean variety, designated XB31E11 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB31E11, cells from soybean variety XB31E11, plants of soybean XB31E11, and plant parts of soybean variety XB31E11. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB31E11 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB31E11, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB31E11, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB31E11. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB31E11 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventor: Debra K Steiger
  • Patent number: 8319011
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof. In other embodiments, the invention is directed toward nicotine demethylase RNA interference, tobacco plants comprising a nicotine demethylase RNA interference transgene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
  • Patent number: 8304610
    Abstract: In various aspects, the invention provides Brassica juncea plants, seeds, cells, nucleic acid sequences and oils. Edible oil derived from plants of the invention may have significantly higher oleic acid content than other B. juncea plants. In one embodiment, the B. juncea line MJ02-357-3 contains a mutant allele MJ02-313-1/BjFAD2-a at the BjFAD2-a gene locus, having a single base-pair change (a G to A substitution in the ORF at position 281 in reference to the first ATG start codon) relative to the wild type sequence. The change is predicted to encode a Glycine-94 Aspartic acid mutation in the sequence of the predicted BjFAD2-a protein. In another embodiment, the B. juncea line MJ02-357-3 contains a mutant allele MJ02-357-3/BjFAD2-a at the BjFAD2-a gene locus, having a single base-pair change (a C to T substitution in the ORF at position 647 in reference to the first ATG start codon) relative to the wild type sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Viterra, Inc.
    Inventors: Kening Yao, Derek A. Potts, Daryl Males
  • Patent number: 8247661
    Abstract: A novel cotton variety, designated as FM 9150F, is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety FM 9150F with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of FM 9150F and to plants of FM 9150F reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from FM 9150F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventor: Michael Swindle
  • Publication number: 20120210457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for breeding a novel plant variety of high fertility xBrassicoraphanus with stabilized seed productivity, and discloses a method for breeding a novel plant variety of xBrassicoraphanus, which involves performing a mutagen treatment on xBrassicoraphanus seeds by treating the xBrassicoraphanus seeds with 0.01 ?g/L of mutagen NMU, sowing the xBrassicoraphanus seeds, gathering the xBrassicoraphanus seeds, sowing the xBrassicoraphanus seeds again, performing artificial crossing in an indoor area to check seed productivity, and checking the uniformity of the variety using an AFLP primer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Soo-Seong Lee
  • Patent number: 8212117
    Abstract: Provided is a method for screening a population of plants for the presence therein of individuals that show a reduced susceptibility to ethylene and physiological disorders, in particular Russet Spotting and Yellowing, as compared to a control plant, wherein a population of seeds is germinated in darkness and in the presence of ethylene to obtain seedlings that, when having a longer hypocotyl as compared to the original ethylene-sensitive control under ethylene, are selected as plants showing a reduced susceptibility to ethylene and physiological disorders, in particular Russet Spotting or Yellowing. Also provided are plants thus selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.
    Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus van Dun, Joyce Sylvia Velterop, Johannes Wilhelmus Schut, Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks
  • Patent number: 8183435
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus) wherein the majority of seed pods, upon reaching maturity, remain attached to their respective pedicels. In particular, the present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus), having a mutant form of the gene for pod shedding, thereby resulting in a “pod holding” trait. The invention also extends to methods for isolating such plants. A yet further aspect of the invention relates to a method of transferring the “pod holding” trait from an annual medic having this trait to another annual medic of the genus Medicago by a process of controlled cross-breeding. A still further aspect of the invention relates to a method of obtaining plants having the “pod holding” trait from a population of annual medics of the genus Medicago.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Pristine Forage Technologies Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Andrew Wylde Hingston Lake, Rickie Elizabeth Drewry
  • Patent number: 8178752
    Abstract: A peanut cultivar designated UFT113 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, the plants, and the plant parts of peanut cultivar UFT113, and to methods for producing a peanut plant by crossing peanut cultivar UFT113 with itself or with another peanut variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a peanut plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic peanut plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to peanut cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from peanut cultivar UFT113, to methods for producing other peanut cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from peanut cultivar UFT113, and to the peanut plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid peanut seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar UFT113 with another peanut cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry Lawrence Tillman, Daniel Wayne Gorbet
  • Patent number: 8168855
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes tobacco varieties having reduced levels of DVTs, methods of making such varieties, and tobacco compositions including such varieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Mark T. Nielsen, Marcos F. Lusso, Francis Antoine
  • Publication number: 20110283408
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH107749. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH107749, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH107749 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH107749.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventor: FUFA H. BIRRU
  • Publication number: 20110283410
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH117581. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH117581, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH117581 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH117581.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventor: BELGIN CUKADAR
  • Publication number: 20110283403
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH356005. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH356005, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH356005 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH356005.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventor: BELGIN CUKADAR
  • Publication number: 20110283407
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH319086. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH319086, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH319086 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH319086.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventor: RICHARD G. STELPFLUG
  • Publication number: 20110277072
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH861515. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH861515, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH861515 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH861515.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Laron L. Peters, Fufa H. Birru, Walter L. Trevisan, Gregory J. Holland, Robert J. Getschman, Fernando Gaitan-Gaitan, Charles T. Foresman, John Frederickson, Scott A. Bergemann, Gary R. Stangland, Christopher S. Eichhorn
  • Publication number: 20110277096
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH287946. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH287946, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH287946 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH287946.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: MARK J. BRINKMAN, Donn P. Cummings, Kevin D. Eichelberger, Christopher S. Eichhorn, Charles T. Foresman, Gregory J. Holland, Roderick D. Lee, Daniel J. Lubich, Duane A. Potrzeba, Laron L. Peters, W. Richard Peterson, Hector Ramirez DE Leon, Walter L. Trevisan
  • Publication number: 20110277099
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH650068. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH650068, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH650068 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH650068.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Sandeep Bhatnagar, Roderick D. Lee, Duane A. Potrzeba, Daniel J. Lubich
  • Publication number: 20110277094
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH711877. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH711877, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH711877 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH711877.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Mark Brinkman, Donn P. Cummings, Kevin D. Eichelberger, Christopher S. Eichhorn, Charles Foresman, Gregory J. Holland, Roderick D. Lee, Daniel J. Lubich, Duane A. Potrzeba, Laron L. Peters, W. Richard Peterson, Hector Ramirez De Leon, Walter L. Trevisan
  • Publication number: 20110277169
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH409461. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH409461, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH409461 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH409461.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventor: SLOBODAN TRIFUNOVIC
  • Publication number: 20110271386
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH495487. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH495487, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH495487 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH495487.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: KENDELL B. HELLEWELL
  • Publication number: 20110271380
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH183781. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH183781, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH183781 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH183781.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: NATHANIEL J. PAGE
  • Publication number: 20110271384
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH692234. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH692234, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH692234 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH692234.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: SLOBODAN TRIFUNOVIC
  • Patent number: 7985901
    Abstract: An inbred corn line, designated BD9122BM, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line BD9122BM, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line BD9122BM with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line BD9122BM with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BD9122BM, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BD9122BM and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Agrigenetics Inc
    Inventors: Scott Norman Kelly, Dale H. Storck
  • Publication number: 20110167513
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of producing male sterile monocotyledonous plants by introducing into said plants fragments of a nucleotide sequence coding for a protein which provides for male sterility and reconstituting the complete protein which provides for male sterility by intein-mediated trans-splicing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Mario Gils
  • Publication number: 20110088117
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH006910. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH006910, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH006910 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH006910.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventor: KENDELL B. HELLEWELL
  • Publication number: 20110078814
    Abstract: Formation of nitrogen fixing root nodules in legumes is induced by perception of lipochitin-oligosaccharide signal molecules secreted by compatible Rhizobium bacteria, which triggers a common symbiotic pathway. The present invention provides a spontaneous nodule formation (snf1-5g) mutant, in which the formation of symbiotic nodules is deregulated, leading to nodule development in the absence as well as in the presence of Rhizobium bacteria and/or exogenous rhizobial signals. The invention further provides an isolated DNA sequence encoding a mutant chimeric Ca2+/calmodulin dependent protein kinase whose activity results in this `gain of function? phenotype of spontaneous nodule formation. Furthermore the snf1-5g gene is shown to confer a spontaneous nodule formation phenotype to plants having a nodulation deficient genetic background.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Leila Tirichine, Jens Stougaard Jensen, Niels Sandal, Lene Heegaard Madsen
  • Publication number: 20110030088
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for transforming grass plants with Agrobacterium. The invention allows creation of transgenic grass plants without the need for callus as a target tissue for transformation, thus providing a rapid method for the production of transgenic grass plants. Transgenic grass plants produced by this method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: ZENG-YU WANG, Rangaraj Nandakumar
  • Publication number: 20100287654
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods of increasing the growth and/or biomass of plants by partially suppressing the expression of a SHORT-ROOT (SHR) polypeptide, such as AtSHR or PtSHR. Manipulation of SHORT-ROOT expression may be useful, for example, in accelerating growth and increasing biomass production in transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Brian Jones, Jiehua Wang, Goran Sandberg
  • Publication number: 20100269194
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB07S09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB07S09, to the plants of soybean XB07S09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB07S09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB07S09 with another soybean plant, using XB07S09 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: MARTIN A. FABRIZIUS, BRADLEY R. HEDGES
  • Publication number: 20100269193
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB007E09. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB007E09, to the plants of soybean XB007E09 to plant parts of soybean variety XB007E09 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB007E09 with another soybean plant, using XB007E09 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Martin A. Fabrizius, Michael T. Roach
  • Publication number: 20100223689
    Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention regulate transcription in these plants and have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity that results in increased size, biomass, growth rate, and/or yield as compared to a control plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Peter P. Repetti, Neal I. Gutterson, Robert A. Creelman
  • Publication number: 20100218270
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to methods and materials involved in producing tobacco plants having reduced levels of conversion of nicotine to nornicotine. In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, tobacco plants comprising mutations in a nicotine demethylase gene, and tobacco compositions and products thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: U.S. SMOKELESS TOBACCO COMPANY
    Inventors: Dongmei Xu, Mark T. Nielsen, Yanxin Shen
  • Publication number: 20100192249
    Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. CREELMAN, Neal I. Gutterson, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, R. Eric Cerny, Kimberly Faye Zobrist Duff, Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace, Robert J. Meister, Marie E. Petracek, Thomas Ruff, Qingzhang Xu
  • Publication number: 20100186105
    Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Neal I. Gutterson, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, R. Eric Cerny, Kimberly Faye Zobrist Duff, Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace, Robert J. Meister, Marie E. Petracek, Thomas Ruff, Qingzhang Xu
  • Publication number: 20100186106
    Abstract: Polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer increased yield, greater height, greater early season growth, greater canopy coverage, greater stem diameter, greater late season vigor, increased secondary rooting, more rapid germination, greater cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, reduced stomatal conductance, altered C/N sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, increased low phosphorus tolerance, or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to the control plant as compared to a control plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Neal I. Gutterson, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, R. Eric Cerny, Kimberly Faye Zobrist Duff, Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace, Robert J. Meister, Marie E. Petracek, Thomas Ruff, Qingzhang Xu
  • Publication number: 20100175145
    Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having improved tolerance to drought, shade, and low nitrogen conditions, as compared to wild-type or reference plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: JACQUELINE E. HEARD, JOSE LUIS RIECHMANN, ROBERT A. CREELMAN, OLIVER RATCLIFFE, ROGER D. CANALES, PETER P. REPETTI, RODERICK W. KUMIMOTO, NEAL I. GUTTERSON, T. LYNNE REUBER, OMAIRA PINEDA, CAI-ZHONG JIANG, KAREN S. CENTURY, LUC ADAM, JAMES Z. ZHANG, FREDERICK D. HEMPEL, JEFFREY M. LIBBY
  • Publication number: 20100162427
    Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Luis RIECHMANN, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Robert Creelman, Oliver Ratcliffe, Luc J. Adam, T. Lynne Reuber, Peter P. Repetti, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Neal I. Gutterson, Marsha L. Pilgrim, Omaira Pineda, James Zhang, Gregory Nadzan
  • Publication number: 20100162428
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for excising a nucleic acid sequence from the genome of a plant or a plant cell. This method is based on the steps of transforming a plant cell with a construct encoding a DNA double strand break inducing enzyme (DSBI), generating a transgenic plant line, performing a transient assay to analyze the functionality of the transgenic enzyme, crossing the plant line with a line containing a nucleic acid sequence to be excised and performing an immature embryo conversion or a tissue culture regeneration through callus formation. The method can also be reversed, which means that a plant cell is transformed with a construct encoding a nucleic acid sequence to be excised, and the crossing is performed with a plant line containing a DSBI. As an alternative to the crossing step, a re-transformation of a transgenic plant line with a second construct can also be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Brown, Fang-Ming Lai, Christina E. Roche, Hee-Sook Song
  • Patent number: 7700839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus) wherein the majority of seed pods, upon reaching maturity, remain attached to their respective pedicels. In particular, the present invention relates to improved cultivars, varieties, lines or plants of annual medics (Medicago genus), having a mutant form of the gene for pod shedding, thereby resulting in a “pod holding” trait. The invention also extends to methods for isolating such plants. A yet further aspect of the invention relates to a method of transferring the “pod holding” trait from an annual medic having this trait to another annual medic of the genus Medicago by a process of controlled cross-breeding. A still further aspect of the invention relates to a method of obtaining plants having the “pod holding” trait from a population of annual medics of the genus Medicago.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Pristine Forage Technologies Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Wylde Hingston Lake, Rickie Elizabeth Drewry
  • Publication number: 20100058655
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the development of tobacco plants, modified through mutagenesis techniques, interspecific hybridisation followed by poliploidisation and recombinant DNA technologies, characterised by the fact of being capable of producing a very high amount of seeds and their use for the production of oil for energetic and industrial scopes, such as combustion oil, biodiesel and lubricating oil, and for animal and human alimentation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Inventor: Corrado Fogher
  • Publication number: 20100050295
    Abstract: Alternative and/or improved methods are described for the exact removal of a selected subfragment from a DNA molecule by intrachromosomal recombination between two directly repeated DNA sequences using a rare-cleaving double stranded break inducing DNA endonuclease expressed under control of a micro-spore specific promoter. These methods can be applied for the exact exchange of a target DNA fragment for a DNA fragment of interest in plant cells and plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: Bayer BioScience N.V.
    Inventors: Kathleen D'Halluin, Rene Ruiter
  • Publication number: 20100024065
    Abstract: Methods and composition for the production of non-flowering or late flowering sorghum hybrid. For example, in certain aspects methods for use of molecular markers that constitute the Ma5/Ma6 pathway to modulate photoperiod sensitivity are described. The invention allows the production of plants having improved productivity and biomass generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: John E. Mullet, William L. Rooney, Patricia E. Klein, Daryl Morishige, Rebecca Murphy, Jeff A. Brady
  • Publication number: 20100017904
    Abstract: Transgenic seed for crops with improved traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA in the nucleus of cells of the seed where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more improved traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield. The present invention also provides recombinant DNA molecules for expression of a protein, and recombinant DNA molecules for suppression of a protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Frances Chelf, Marie A. Coffin, Bettina Darveaux, Barry S. Goldman, Maria McDonald, Ronald Rich, Erin Slaten, Shanita Wilkins
  • Publication number: 20100017906
    Abstract: Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences are useful in mediating male fertility in plants. In one such method, the homozygous recessive condition of male sterility causing alleles is maintained after crossing with a second plant, where the second plant contains a restoring transgene construct having a nucleotide sequence which reverses the homozygous condition. The restoring sequence is linked with a hemizygous sequence encoding a product inhibiting formation or function of male gametes. The maintainer plant produces only viable male gametes which do not contain the restoring transgene construct. Increase of the maintainer plant is also provided by self-fertilization, and selection for seed or plants which contain the construct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Marc C. Albertsen, Tim Fox, Gary Huffman, Mary Trimnell, Yongzhong Wu, Howard Hershey