Potato Patents (Class 800/317.2)
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Publication number: 20140208462Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in some embodiments, to compositions, organisms, systems, and methods for expressing a gene product in a plant using a expression control sequence (ECS) operable in monocots and/or dicots. For example, (i) an isolated nucleic acid may comprise an ECS (e.g., a sugarcane bacilliform virus promoter) and, optionally, an exogenous nucleic acid (ExNA) operably linked to the ECS; (ii) an expression vector may comprise an ECS; an ExNA; and, optionally, a 3? termination sequence, wherein the ECS has promoter activity sufficient to express the ExNA in at least one monocot and at least one dicot; (iii) a microorganism, plant cell, or plant may comprise an isolated nucleic acid; (iv) a method for constitutively expressing an ExNA in a plant (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Mona DAMAJ, T. Erik MIRKOV
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Publication number: 20140201858Abstract: The invention relates to organisms and compositions comprising one or more stem cells or one or more embryos, wherein the one or more stem cells or one or more embryos comprise one or more of the following mutations: (i) a deletion mutation; (ii) a knockout mutation; and/or (iii) an addition of a heterologous nucleic acid sequence; wherein the one or more mutations of (i), (ii), and/or (iii) are site-specific mutations caused by a Xanthomonas TAL nuclease (XTN). The invention also relates to method of mutating an embryo, iPS cell, stem cell, or more particularly a spermatogonial stem cell by exposing the nucleic acid sequence contained within such embryos or cell with a Xanthomonas TAL nuclease.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: Transposagen Biopharmaceuticals, IncInventors: Eric M. Ostertag, John S. Crawford, J. Keith Joung
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Publication number: 20140196178Abstract: A method for engineering a transgenic plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria, such as cyanobacteria, or that of other bacteria, by targeting to or expressing in plant plastids bacterial nif (nitrogen fixation) genes is provided. A method for reducing the overall concentration of nitrogen in soil is provided using a plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria. Progeny of a plant that replicates the nitrogen fixation mechanism of photosynthetic bacteria is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Inventor: Adi Zaltsman
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Publication number: 20140196170Abstract: Provided herein are, inter alia, transgenic plants with altered ethylene sensitivity. The transgenic plants provided herein express an EIN2 protein including an amino acid mutation at a position corresponding to position 645 of SEQ ID NO:1. Expression of the EIN2 protein carrying the mutation at position 645 will result in plants with modulated ethylene sensitivity. In some embodiments, the mutation at position 645 of the EIN2 protein will result in plants with increased ethylene sensitivity. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the mutation at position 645 of the EIN2 protein will result in plants with decreased ethylene sensitivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Hong Qiao, Joseph R. Ecker
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Publication number: 20140179911Abstract: The present invention relates to plant cells and plants which synthesize hyaluronan and to methods for preparing such plants, and also to methods for preparing hyaluronan with the aid of these plant cells or plants. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of plants for preparing hyaluronan and to food or feed which comprises hyaluronan.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Claus FROHBERG, Rainhard KOCH
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Publication number: 20140178561Abstract: Materials and methods are provided for making plants (e.g., Solanum varieties) with decreased accumulation of reducing sugars and acrylamide in cold-stored potatoes, specifically, by making TALE-nuclease-induced mutations in genes encoding vacuolar invertase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: CellectisInventors: Luc Mathis, Daniel F. Voytas, Feng Zhang, Benjamin Clasen, William Haun, Thomas Stoddard
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Patent number: 8754303Abstract: A potato cultivar designated J3 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar J3, to seeds of potato cultivar J3, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar J3, to food products produced from potato cultivar J3, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar J3 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar J3, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar J3 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar J3 with another potato cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Pete Clark, Susan Fortier Collinge
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Transferases and Oxidoreductases, Nucleic Acids Encoding Them and Methods for Making and Using Them.
Publication number: 20140165221Abstract: This invention relates generally to enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the enzymes, the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides and more specifically to enzymes having transferase activity, e.g., transaminase activity, e.g., d-amino-acid transferase activity, and/or oxidoreductase activity, e.g., dehydrogenase activity, e.g., d-amino-acid dehydrogenase activity, and/or catalyze the transfer of a chemical group, catalyze transamination, catalyze the reaction: D-alanine+2-oxoglutarate<=>pyruvate+D-glutamate, and/or catalyze an oxidation-reduction reaction, catalyze the removal of hydrogen atoms, and/or catalyze the reaction: D-amino acid+H2O+acceptor<=>a 2-oxo acid+NH3+reduced acceptor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: VERENIUM CORPORATIONInventors: DAVID P. WEINER, PETER LUGINBUHL, ANALIA BUENO, JOSLIN M. CUENCA, ERIN MARASCO -
Publication number: 20140154397Abstract: The invention relates to methods for stably integrating a desired polynucleotide into a plant genome, comprising transforming plant material with a first vector comprising nucleotide sequences encoding TAL proteins designed to recognize a target sequence; transforming the plant material with a second vector comprising (i) a marker gene that is not operably linked to a promoter (“promoter-free marker cassette”) and which comprises a sequence homologous to the target sequence; and (ii) a desired polynucleotide; and identifying transformed plant material in which the desired polynucleotide is stably integrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: J.R. SIMPLOT COMPANYInventors: Caius M. Rommens, Hui Duan, J. Troy Weeks
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Publication number: 20140135375Abstract: Compositions and methods for delivery of therapeutic RNA molecules are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyInventor: Eric Lam
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Publication number: 20140130209Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to the field of anti-pathogenic agents, including a modified defensin molecule with anti-pathogen activity. Genetically modified plants and their progeny or parts expressing or containing the modified defensin and anti-pathogen compositions for use in horticulture and agriculture and as animal and human medicaments are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: HEXIMA LIMITEDInventors: Nicole Van Der Weerden, Marily Anne Anderson
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Publication number: 20140127266Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of making a vaccine against Entamoeba histolytica and methods of immunizing a subject using such vaccine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventor: Henry Daniell
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Patent number: 8710311Abstract: A potato cultivar designated F10 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar F10, to the seeds of potato cultivar F10, to the plants of potato F10, to the plant parts of potato cultivar F10, to food products produced from potato cultivar F10, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar F10 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety F10, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar F10 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: J. R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Pete Clark, Susan Fortier Collinge
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Publication number: 20140082761Abstract: The present invention describes an approach to increase plant growth and production. The invention describes methods for the use of functional sulfinoalanine decarboxylase (SAD) or the promiscuous enzyme activity of SAD in plants or algal cells. Transgenic plants will have increased plant growth, biomass, yield, and/or tolerance to biotic and/or abiotic stresses and could be used as a pharmaceutical, nutraceutical or as a supplement in animal feed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Frank J. Turano, Kathleen A. Turano
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Publication number: 20140082763Abstract: A potato cultivar designated ‘FL 2322’ is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers and seeds of potato cultivar ‘FL 2322’, to plants of potato cultivar ‘FL 2322’, to plant parts of potato cultivar ‘FL 2322’ and to methods for producing progeny of potato cultivar ‘FL 2322’. The invention relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genome one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety ‘FL 2322’, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar ‘FL 2322’ and to potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar ‘FL 2322’ with another potato cultivar.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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Publication number: 20140082762Abstract: A potato cultivar designated ‘FL 2312’ is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers and seeds of potato cultivar ‘FL 2312’, to plants of potato cultivar ‘FL 2312’, to plant parts of potato cultivar ‘FL 2312’ and to methods for producing progeny of potato cultivar ‘FL 2312’. The invention relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genome one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety ‘FL 2312’, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar ‘FL 2312’ and to potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar ‘FL 2312’ with another potato cultivar.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: FRITO-LAY NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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Patent number: 8674177Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and isolating native plant nucleic acid sequences that may function as T-DNAs or T-DNA border-like sequences, effecting the transfer of one polynucleotide into another polynucleotide. The present invention also provides a modified tuber, such as a genetically modified mature tuber, that comprises at least one trait that is not exhibited by a non-modified tuber of the same species.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius Rommens, Jingsong Ye, Jaime Menendez-Humara, Hua Yan, Kathy Swords
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Publication number: 20140068812Abstract: The present invention discloses regulatory sequences, promoters and terminators, and their use in plants. The regulatory sequences can be used to make gene constructs that include a gene not natively associated with the regulatory sequences. Methods to use the regulatory sequences with antisense constructs or functional RNAs are disclosed. Methods to use the regulatory sequences, promoter or terminator, independently of each other are also disclosed. Methods to use the regulatory sequences to improve plant growth and production such as increased biomass, increased yield and increased tolerance to abiotic or biotic stresses are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: PLANT SENSORY SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Frank J. Turano, Kathleen A. Turano
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Publication number: 20140059715Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs of plastidial sugar epimerases useful for conferring improved agronomic performance including yield and drought are disclosed. Compositions (such as plants or seeds) having these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGYInventors: Changcai Chu, Chunlai Li
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Publication number: 20140033364Abstract: A method of modifying morphology in a plant by introducing into a plant at least one chimaeric gene having a promoter sequence operably associated with a nucleic acid sequence, the promoter sequence being operable to direct expression in specific cells of the plant and the nucleic acid sequence encoding at least one gene product capable of altering the metabolism of or causing death of the specific cells and/or nearby cells. In particular, the promoter sequence is operable to direct expression in lateral bud or lateral shoot and the nucleic acid encoding at least one gene product capable of disrupting the metabolism of or causing the death of the lateral bud or lateral shoot of nearby cells. Preferably the promoter sequence has the sequence shown as SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 7 or SEQ ID No. 4, or a part thereof capable of regulating expression of a gene, or a sequence having at least 60%, preferably at least 75%, homology to SEQ ID No. 1 or SEQ ID No. 7 or SEQ ID No.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) LimitedInventors: Christopher John Robert THOMAS, Martin Richard WARD
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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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Publication number: 20140020132Abstract: A transgenic plant engineered to have increased desiccation tolerance, increased drought tolerance or increased water use efficiency, the plant transformed with an artificial DNA construct comprising a transcribable nucleic acid molecule encoding a polypeptide requiring both ABA and ABI3 to influence desiccation tolerance. Also provided are DNA constructs and methods of producing a transgenic plant engineered to have increased desiccation tolerance, increased drought tolerance or increased water use efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYInventors: Ralph S. Quatrano, Yoichi Sakata, Izumi Yotsui
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Publication number: 20140007288Abstract: The materials and methods disclosed provide for polynucleotide molecules sufficiently divergent from polynucleotides naturally contained in plants, or polynucleotides previously introduced into plants as transgenes to permit trait stacking in plant breeding methods or plant transformation methods. The disclosure also provides for methods and compositions to detect the polynucleotides of the invention in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
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Publication number: 20130338348Abstract: Steviol glycosides are sweeter than sugar and have a much lower calorimetric value. The compounds are purified from leaves of Stevia and Rubus plants and used as sweetener in foods and beverages. The present methods use recombinant and genetic methods to produce steviol and steviol glycosides in plants and plant products.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventors: Caius M. ROMMENS, Jingsong YE, Roshani SHAKYA
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Publication number: 20130333066Abstract: The present specification teaches the generation of drought tolerant plants. The present disclosure enables manipulation of a phenotypic characteristic referred to herein as “stay-green” to generate drought tolerant plants by recombinant, mutagenic and/or breeding and selection methods. Plant management practice systems to increase crop yield and harvest efficiency in water-limited environments are also taught herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicants: THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION, GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Andrew Kenneth Borrell, David Robert Jordan, John Mullet, Patricia Klein
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Publication number: 20130326725Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for targeted modification of one or more endogenous plant malate dehydrogenase genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Inventors: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130305412Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:61-121 and 133-141, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-60, 124-132, and 142-283, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Kimberly S. Sampson, Daniel J. Tomso
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Publication number: 20130305409Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring herbicide resistance or tolerance to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions include polynucleotides encoding herbicide resistance or tolerance polypeptides, vectors comprising those polynucleotides, and host cells comprising the vectors. The nucleotide sequences of the invention can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in organisms, including microorganisms and plants. Compositions also include transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated polynucleotides encoding glyphosate resistance or tolerance polypeptides are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Laura Cooper Schouten, Cheryl L. Peters, Brian Vande Berg
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Publication number: 20130276172Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a 1-AminoCyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase-like Polypeptide (ACCDP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the crop plant results in the plant's increased root growth, and/or increased yield, and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic crop plants. Also provided are isolated novel ACCDPs, and isolated novel nucleic acids encoding ACCDPs, and vectors and transgenic plant containing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
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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: 20130260012Abstract: The present invention provides potato plant varieties with high tuber yield and tuber products with superior flavor and texture, and methods for increasing tuber yield and improving heat-processed product quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: J.R. SIMPLOT COMPANYInventors: Caius M. Rommens, Hua Yan
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Publication number: 20130232642Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a PRE2 polypeptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Rajeev Gupta, Shuping Jiao, Robert B. Meeley, Dilbag S. Multani, Robert Williams
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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: 20130227741Abstract: The invention is directed to polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, mannanse, ?-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and/or oligomerase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and feed processing and industrial contexts. The invention also provides compositions or products of manufacture comprising mixtures of enzymes comprising at least one enzyme of this invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicants: Verenium Corporation, BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: BP Corporation North America Inc., Verenium Corporation
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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: 20130217577Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, and nucleic acids useful in encoding the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLCInventor: DOW AGROSCIENCES 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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Patent number: 8502027Abstract: The present invention relates to a new plant breeding process. The process improves the agronomic performance of crop plants by using genetic material that is also used in classical breeding. Instead of sexually recombining entire genomes at random, as is done in classical breeding, specific genetic elements are rearranged in vitro and inserted back into individual plant cells. Plants obtained through this new plant breeding process do not contain foreign nucleic acid but only contain nucleic acid from the plant species selected for transformation or plants that are sexually compatible with the selected plant species. Plants developed through this new plant breeding process are provided. In particular, potato plants displaying improved tuber storage and health characteristics are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: J.R. Simplot CompanyInventor: Caius Rommens
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Publication number: 20130198878Abstract: Disclosed herein are homozygously modified organisms and methods of making and using these organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: August 1, 2013Applicant: C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventor: C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.
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Publication number: 20130160161Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for inhibiting the expression of the gene Snl6 in plants. Plants with inhibited expression of Snl6 have use in biofuel production, e.g., by increasing the amount of soluble sugar that can be extracted from the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Rebecca Bart, Mawsheng Chern, Pamela Ronald, Miguel Vega-Sanchez
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Patent number: 8461427Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides that alter tocol content in seeds. The invention further provides expression cassettes, host cells and transformed plants containing the nucleic acids. The present invention further provides methods for altering tocol content in seeds.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co.Inventors: Edgar Cahoon, Karlene H Butler, Rebecca Cahoon, Sean J Coughlan
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Publication number: 20130145499Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of transgenic and non-transgenic plants with novel phenotypes. Provided are Solanum lycopersicum Auxin Response Factor 9 (SlARF9) proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these, which are useful in conferring novel phenotypes to plants, especially increased fruit size.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Inventors: Willem Hendrik Vriezen, Celestina Mariani, Maaike De Jong
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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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Patent number: 8455740Abstract: A potato cultivar designated ‘FL 2204’ is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’, to the seeds of potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’, to the plants of potato ‘FL 2204’, to the plant parts of potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’ and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’ with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety ‘FL 2204’, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar ‘FL 2204’ and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.Inventor: Robert W. Hoopes
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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: 20130117883Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of transcribable polynucleotides in plant cells, plant tissues, and plants. Compositions include regulatory polynucleotide molecules capable of providing expression in plant tissues and plants. Methods for expressing polynucleotides in a plant cell, plant tissue, or plants using the regulatory polynucleotide molecules disclosed herein are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventors: Tedd D. Elich, Philip N. Benfey, Jee W. Jung
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Publication number: 20130104255Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins and homologs that are associated with abiotic stress responses and abiotic stress tolerance in plants. In particular, this invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins that confer drought, heat, cold, and/or salt tolerance to plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Florian Schauwecker, Amber Shirley