Melon (e.g., Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Etc.) Patents (Class 800/309)
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Publication number: 20140059712Abstract: The invention relates to a melon plant, and parts thereof including seeds and fruit, that is resistant to Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus (ZYMV) and Watermelon Mosaic Virus (WMV). The melon plant may further comprise resistance to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) and/or further display a Brix measurement of ?9.5° Bx, orange flesh color, and/or a fruit width to length ratio of ?0.5. Methods for producing such a plant are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventors: Eleni Bachlava, Francois P. M. Bertrand, Jeroen S. de Vries, Tarek Joobeur, Joseph J. King, Petrus J. Kraakman
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Publication number: 20140033367Abstract: Disclosed herein are transgenic plants that have been modified to express ?-glucosidase, and methods and materials for making same. The transgenic plants possess several advantageous features including increased biomass, increased trichome density and increased parasite resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: University of Central Florida Research FoundationInventor: Henry Daniell
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Patent number: 8618361Abstract: The present invention provides novel melon plants and plant parts, seed, fruit, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a melon plant by crossing the melon plants of the invention with themselves or another melon plant. The invention also provides plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, fruit, and tissue culture therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Rakesh Kumar, Alex May
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Publication number: 20130312134Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to honeydew melon plants and honeydew melon fruits. A honeydew melon plant producing fruits having white fruit flesh is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventor: Jean Poulos
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Publication number: 20130298278Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the production of Cucumis melo plants with elevated Brix and/or enhanced fruit color. The invention further provides plants, plant parts, and seeds comprising such elevated Brix. The invention allows introgression of the identified high Brix QTL in an desired genetic background of a sexually compatible plant species.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventors: Eleni Bachlava, Joseph J. King, Subash Krishnamurthy, Jeffrey M. Mills, Adam M. Wentzell
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Patent number: 8575439Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid SVR 17391044 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of melon hybrid SVR 17391044 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey M. Mills
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Publication number: 20130276156Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multiple inducible gene regulation system that functions within cells to simultaneously control the quantitative expression of multiple genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Intrexon CorporationInventors: Tarlochan Singh DHADIALLA, Dean Ervin Cress, Glenn Richard Carlson, Robert Eugene Hormann, Subba Reddy Palli, Arthur John Kudla, Ronald Phillip Herzig, JR., Mohan Philip
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Publication number: 20130266608Abstract: Compositions and methods for producing plant-derived immunogenic compositions that confer immunity against smallpox in a subject are provided. Plants engineered to produce antigenic proteins as well as expression cassettes comprising nucleic acids encoding proteins thereof are described. Methods of immunizing subjects with plant-derived compositions are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: PHARMA GREEN LLCInventor: Maxim Golovkin
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Publication number: 20130232641Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting enhanced growth rates, seed and fruit yields, and overall biomass yields, as well as methods for generating growth-enhanced transgenic plants. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicants: University of Maine System Board of Trustees, Los Alamos National Security, LLCInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Publication number: 20130232646Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James A. Baum, Larry A. Gilbertson, David K. Kovalic, Thomas J. LaRosa, Maolong Lu, Tichafa R.I. Munyikwa, James K. Roberts, Wei Wu, Bei Zhang
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Publication number: 20130219564Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Monsanto Technology LLC
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Publication number: 20130205441Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow Agrosciences LLC
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Publication number: 20130202647Abstract: Disclosed herein are chloroplast transformation vectors constructed to enable expression and hyperaccumulation of membrane proteins in chloroplasts. Another embodiment relates to plants transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to seeds and other plant tissues transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to a method of increasing expression of membrane proteins in chloroplasts including transforming a plant cell with vectors described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Henry Daniell
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Publication number: 20130205440Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
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Publication number: 20130145495Abstract: This invention provides genetically modified photosynthetic organisms and methods and constructs for enhancing inorganic carbon fixation. A photosynthetic organism of the present invention comprises a RUBISCO fusion protein operatively coupled to a protein-protein interaction domain to enable the functional association of RUBISCO and carbonic anhydrase.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTERInventor: Richard T. Sayre
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Publication number: 20130117872Abstract: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a Group H nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Subba Reddy PALLI, Mohan Basavaraju Kumar, Dean Ervin Cress, Ted Tsutomu Fujimoto
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Publication number: 20130097727Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus designated NUN 96141 ME, plants, seeds and melon fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicants: Laboratoire ASL, Nunhems B.V.Inventors: Nunhems B.V., Laboratoire ASL
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Patent number: 8399741Abstract: Honeydew melon having high percent soluble solids and improved firmness is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of honeydew melons SSC 112, SSC 135, SSC 118, 10217-3, 10233-1, 11466, 10888, 10288-1, and 11876-1, to the plants of honeydew melons SSC 112, SSC 135, SSC 118, 10217-3, 10233-1, 11466, 10888, 10288-1, and 11876-1, and to methods for producing a honeydew melon plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing each of the melons SSC 112, SSC 135, SSC 118, 10217-3, 10233-1, 11466, 10888, 10288-1, and 11876-1 with itself or another honeydew melon cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a honeydew melon plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other honeydew melon cultivars derived from the melons SSC 112, SSC 135, SSC 118, 10217-3, 10233-1, 11466, 10888, 10288-1, and 11876-1.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Shamrock Seed Company, Inc.Inventor: Larry D. Knerr
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Publication number: 20130064959Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus, NUN 02602 ME, plants, seeds and melon fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: NUNHEMS B.V.Inventor: Nunhems B.V.
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Publication number: 20130052329Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus designated NUN 0030 ME, plants, seeds and melon fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: NUNHEMS B.V.Inventor: Nunhems B.V.
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Publication number: 20130042338Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid SVR 17391044 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of melon hybrid SVR 17391044 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon 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: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Inventor: Jeffrey M. Mills
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Publication number: 20130014289Abstract: Compositions and methods for imparting stress tolerance to plants using WRKY nucleic acid and polypeptides.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of SciencesInventors: Jinsong Zhang, Shouyi Chen, Canfang Niu, Biao Ma, Wanke Zhang, Qing Lin, Sijie He
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Publication number: 20130007911Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of blocking or reducing genetically modified plant (GMO) pollen flow using a “non-lethal” approach. In this aspect, at least one transgenic polynucleotide of interest is linked to a pollen-ablation construct as described herein. The pollen-ablation construct contains a polynucleotide encoding a restriction enzyme that renders the transgenic pollen unable to fertilize a sexually compatible ovule.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventor: C. NEAL STEWART, JR.
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Publication number: 20120324597Abstract: A Cucumis melo plant is disclosed, wherein a flesh of a fruit of the plant comprises tetra-cis-lycopene (pro-lycopene). Methods of generating same are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: THE STATEOF ISRAEL,MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOP., AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONInventors: Yaakov Tadmor, Yosef Burger, Nurit Katzir, Efraim Lewinsohn, Vitaly Portnoy, Tamar Lavee, Ayala Meir, Uzi Saar, Arthur A. Schaffer
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Publication number: 20120315371Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus, NUN 01307 ME, plants and melon fruits; a sample of seed of said line having been deposited under Accession Number NCIMB ______.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventor: Jean Paul Ginoux
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Publication number: 20120311731Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus, NUN 1101 ME, plants, seeds and melon fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventor: Jean Paul Ginoux
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Publication number: 20120295012Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Cucumis melo, in particular to a new variety of Cucumis melo reticulatus, NUN 02002 ME, seeds, plants and melon fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: November 22, 2012Inventor: Jean Poulos
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Publication number: 20120272400Abstract: The invention relates to methods of increasing the photosynthesis rate of a plant cell and/or the production of biomass in a plant, as well as to plant cells and plants with increased photosynthesis rate/production of biomass. The present invention also relates to a phosphatase of the light-harvesting complex of photosystem II, to nucleic acids coding for such phosphatase, and to mutants of such nucleic acids. Moreover, the present invention relates to plant cells and plants, wherein the activity of said phosphatase is inhibited; in particular the present invention relates to plant cells and plants comprising the mutant nucleic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventors: Dario Leister, Mathias Pribil
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Publication number: 20120222148Abstract: The present invention describes an approach to increase taurine or hypotaurine production in prokaryotes or eukaryotes. More particularly, the invention relates to genetic transformation of organisms with genes that encode proteins that catalyze the conversion of cysteine to taurine, methionine to taurine, cysteamine to taurine, or alanine to taurine. The invention describes methods for the use of polynucleotides that encode functional cysteine dioxygenase (CDO), cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) and sulfinoalanine decarboxylase (SAD) or glutamate decarboxylase (GAD), cysteamine dioxygenase (ADO), taurine-pyruvate aminotransferase (TPAT), TPAT and sulfoacetaldehyde acetyltransferase (SA), taurine dioxygenase (TDO) or the small (ssTDeHase) and large subunits of taurine dehydrogenase (lsTDeHase) polypeptides in plants to increase taurine, hypotaurine or taurine precursor production. The preferred embodiment of the invention is in plants but other organisms may be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Frank J. Turano, Kathleen A. Turano, Peter S. Carlson, Alan M. Kinnersley
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Publication number: 20120185954Abstract: This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: INTREXON CorporationInventors: Subba Reddy PALLI, Mohan Basavaraju Kumar
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Patent number: 8198514Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid Bucanero and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of melon hybrid Bucanero and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Paul Chung
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Publication number: 20120079618Abstract: The present invention relates to bitter melon breeding and products, in particular, to a new bitter melon variety designated CBM12.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Chittaranjan Kole, Phullara Kole, Bode A. Olukolu, Albert G. Abbott
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Publication number: 20120042411Abstract: An isolated polynucleotide sequence that encodes for a multi domain recombination protein, comprising a donor DNA-Binding domain (BDB); and a chromosomal binding domain (CBD). A plant cell can be transformed by introducing into the cell a first nucleic acid sequence, which comprises a plant nuclear promoter operably linked to a first nucleic acid sequence comprising the stated polynucleotide sequence, and a second nucleic acid sequence, which comprises a donor nucleic acid sequence and at least two flanking sequences capable of binding to a donor binding domain of the protein, the sequences being located adjacent to each end of the donor polynucleotide sequence forming left and right borders thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: February 16, 2012Inventors: Isabelle Malcuit, Alexander Sorokin
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GROWTH ENHANCEMENT AND CONTROL OF BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL PLANT DISEASES WITH STREPTOMYCES SCOPULIRIDIS
Publication number: 20120028799Abstract: Methods of controlling plant diseases mediated by bacterial or fungal plant pathogens. The method comprises providing Streptomyces scopuliridis strain RB72 or an isolated protein or polypeptide comprising the amino acid of SEQ ID NO:1 and applying the Streptomyces scopuliridis strain RB72 or the isolated protein or polypeptide comprising the amino acid of SEQ ID NO:1 to plants or plant seeds under conditions effective to treat plant diseases mediated by bacterial or fungal plant pathogens. Also disclosed is a plant or plant seed treated by this method, a planting composition, and a method of enhancing growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: BIOWORKS, INC.Inventors: William R. MARTIN, JR., Nicole J. SCOTT -
Publication number: 20110321187Abstract: Method for heterologous protein production in plant cell plastids comprising introducing into plant cells nucleic acid components that encode heterologous proteins under the control of promoters operative in plastids, vectors, host cells, plants and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2009Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: Algentech SASInventors: Isabelle Malcuit, Alexander Sorokin
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Patent number: 8076076Abstract: The present disclosure provides for systems and method for producing hybrid seed. In various embodiments, the disclosure provides a system for the high-throughput, nondestructive sampling of seeds. In another embodiment, a high-throughput, nondestructive method for producing hybrid seeds comprises removing a sample from a plurality of seeds in the population while preserving the germination viability of the seed and analyzing the sample for the presence or absence of one or more genetic markers indicative of a male-sterile gene.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Thomas C. Osborn, Paul Chung, Joseph J. King, Kevin Deppermann, Jamaine R. Hubbard
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Publication number: 20110225673Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant viral enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
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Publication number: 20110225672Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of melon hybrid Bucanero and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of melon hybrid Bucanero and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a melon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another melon 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: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventor: Paul Chung
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Publication number: 20110197305Abstract: Compositions and methods for imparting a dense and erect panicle phenotype to plants, including polynucleotides, polypeptides, vectors and cells. This phenotype is associated with improving plant traits, such as improving plant yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Xiangdong Fu, Xianzhong Huang, Qian Qian, Zhengbin Liu
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Publication number: 20110197311Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Larry Gilbertson, Xudong Ye
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Publication number: 20110191894Abstract: Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants are provided. Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants by increased expression of an exogenous or endogenous abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants are provided expressing increased abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP, during the developmental stage of senescence, thereby promoting enhanced plant senescence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sarah M. Assmann, Cha Young Kim, Jerome Bove, John Kuk Na
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Patent number: 7960609Abstract: The present invention relates to an avian influenza vaccine of plant origin, prepared by transforming a plant with a surface protein of avian influenza virus, hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA), and a method for preparing the same. Further, the present invention relates to an oral vaccine for preventing avian influenza virus, of which mass-production conditions are established, and thus the produced transgenic plant can be more easily, safely, and economically used as a fodder additive. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a reagent for diagnosing avian influenza virus infection, prepared by isolating and purifying a recombinant antigen protein from the transgenic plant.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate CollaborationInventors: Joo-Sung Yang, Eun Hee Yang
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Publication number: 20110138499Abstract: 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, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam
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Publication number: 20110131688Abstract: The relationship between F-box proteins and proteins involved in the ethylene response in plants is described. In particular, F-box proteins may bind to proteins involved in the ethylene response and target them for degradation by the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. The transcription factor EIN3 is a key transcription factor mediating ethylene-regulated gene expression and morphological responses. EIN3 is degraded through a ubiquitin/proteasome pathway mediated by F-box proteins EBF1 and EBF2. The link between F-box proteins and the ethylene response is a key step in modulating or regulating the response of a plant to ethylene. Described herein are transgenic plants having an altered sensitivity to ethylene, and methods for making transgenic plant having an altered sensitivity to ethylene by modulating the level of activity of F-box proteins. Methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Hongwei Guo, Joseph R. Ecker
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Publication number: 20110119789Abstract: The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Luc J. Adam, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Publication number: 20110059129Abstract: The present invention relates to an avian influenza vaccine of plant origin, prepared by transforming a plant with a surface protein of avian influenza virus, hemagglutinin (HA) or neuraminidase (NA), and a method for preparing the same. Further, the present invention relates to an oral vaccine for preventing avian influenza virus, of which mass-production conditions are established, and thus the produced transgenic plant can be more easily, safely, and economically used as a fodder additive. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a reagent for diagnosing avian influenza virus infection, prepared by isolating and purifying a recombinant antigen protein from the transgenic plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Joo-Sung Yang, Eun Hee Yang
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Publication number: 20110055947Abstract: The invention provides a Cucumis melo var. inodorus melon of consistent harvest quality. One embodiment provides use of fruit separation from the stem at harvest maturity to indicate harvest maturity of Cucumis melo var. inodorus melons. In specific embodiments, the fruit separation from the stem at harvest maturity indicator demonstrates harvest maturity on a per melon basis, can be scored visually or by force necessary to remove the melon from the plant, and reduces wounding damage upon separation of the fruit from the vine. Significantly, the invention provides for consistent harvest maturity of Cucumis melo var. inodorus melons that retain flesh firmness at the time of harvest and upon transport to market.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: PAUL CHUNG, Jeffrey Mills, Adam Wentzell
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Publication number: 20110030089Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants exhibiting dramatically enhanced growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, more efficient nitrogen utilization, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields. In one embodiment, transgenic plants engineered to over-express both glutamine phenylpyruvate transaminase (GPT) and glutamine synthetase (GS) are provided. The GPT+GS double-transgenic plants of the invention consistently exhibit enhanced growth characteristics, with T0 generation lines showing an increase in biomass over wild type counterparts of between 50% and 300%. Generations that result from sexual crosses and/or selfing typically perform even better, with some of the double-transgenic plants achieving an astounding four-fold biomass increase over wild type plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicants: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, University of Maine System Board of TrusteesInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Publication number: 20110004957Abstract: A genetically modified fruit-producing plant, said plant having sufficiently reduced total Polyphenol Oxidase (PPO) activity relative to a wild type of said plant to reduce browning in the fruit of said plant relative to said wild type, wherein the reduced total PPO activity results from a reduction in activity of at least two PPO isoenzymes in said plant relative to said wild type, or a cell, seed, seedling, part, tissue, cell, fruit or progeny of said plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: OKANAGAN SPECIALTY FRUITS INC.Inventors: John Armstrong, William David Lane
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Publication number: 20100299783Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion polynucleotides for biosynthesis of beta-carotene and a method for producing beta-carotene using the same. More particularly, it relates to fusion polynucleotides encoding phytoene synthase, connective sequences of FMDV-derived 2A sequence or internal ribosome entry site (IRES) and carotene desaturase, and a method for producing beta-carotenes using the same. Fusion polynucleotides and the recombinant vector using the same of the present invention have the effect of expression both phytoene synthase gene and carotene desaturase gene stably within cell transformants. Accordingly, fusion polynucleotides of the present invention can be used to regulate the biosynthetic metabolism of plant producing beta-carotene. Furthermore, it can be applied to effectively increase the content of beta-carotene, a useful metabolite.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: Republic of Korea, Rural Development AdministrationInventors: Sun Hwa Ha, Ju Kon Kim, Ha Rin Jung, Jung Bong Kim, Young Mi Kim, Seok-Cheol Suh, Liang Ying Shi, Soon Jong Kweon, Dong Hern Kim