Tomato Patents (Class 800/317.4)
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Publication number: 20150020241Abstract: The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from the S-adenosyl methionine synthetase (SAMS3) gene of Arabidopsis thaliana and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the Arabidopsis thaliana regulatory polynucleotide sequences, and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Wei Wu, Qi Wang, Michael Edgerton, Kim Beazley, Jill Deikman, Michael W. Petersen, Bei Zhang
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Patent number: 8933301Abstract: The present invention provides a series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one tomato ?-galactosidase 4 gene, tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their tomato ?-galactosidase 4 genes, and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the tomato ?-galactosidase 4 gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. Tomato plants identified and produced in accordance with the present invention have fruit that are firmer when ripe with reduced post-harvest softening compared to fruit from wild type tomato plants as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their tomato ?-galactosidase 4 genes.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Susan R. Hurst, Dayna L. Loeffler, Michael N. Steine, Anna Amen, Dionne Vafeados
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Publication number: 20150013032Abstract: The invention concerns the use of duplex oligonucleotides about 25 to 30 base pairs to introduce site specific genetic alterations in plant cells. The oligonucleotides can be delivered by mechanical (biolistic) systems or by electroporation of plant protoplasts. Thereafter plants having the genetic alteration can be generated form the altered cells. In specific embodiments the invention concerns the alteration in the gene that encode acid invertase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, polyphenol oxidase, O-methyl transferase, cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase, ACC synthase and ACC oxidase or etr-1 or homolog of etr-1, and plants having isolated point mutations in such genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Charles J. ARNTZEA, Peter B. KIPP, Ramesh KUMAR, Gregory D. MAY
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Publication number: 20150013031Abstract: 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: June 3, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Larry A. Gilbertson, Xudong Ye
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Patent number: 8927823Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01819578 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01819578 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Maria Rita Mogno
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Patent number: 8927824Abstract: A new and distinct variety of paste-type hybrid tomato plant is described that is derived in part from an Amish tomato, and in part from a Big Bertha Pepper. This hybrid tomato has 2-4 lobes similar to a pepper, a hardy skin, and remains on the vine when ripe until frost. When picked ripe, this tomato lasts longer without rotting than normal tomatoes. Some of these tomatoes have been eaten after 3 months from picking. The fruit usually shrinks inside itself after some time from picking.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Inventor: Ernest S. Aughenbaugh
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Publication number: 20150007362Abstract: 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: November 27, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: Salk Institute for Biological StudiesInventors: Hongwei Guo, Joseph R. Ecker
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Patent number: 8921671Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato line FDR-9Q08131. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato line FDR-9Q08131, and to methods for producing a tomato plan produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: James D. Frantz
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Patent number: 8921670Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX01420200 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX01420200 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Charles Wayne Fowler, Jaap Hoogstraten
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Publication number: 20140380525Abstract: A transgenic plant comprising a polynucleotide encoding a nitrogen utilization protein operably linked to a PBpr1 promoter is provided. The transgenic plant exhibits increased nitrogen use efficiency, increased biomass and/or increased seed yield. Seeds from such transgenic plants, genetic constructs to prepare such plants, methods of generating and growing transgenic plants are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AGInventors: Allen Good, Yee Ying Lock, Perrin H. Beatty
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Publication number: 20140380517Abstract: The present invention provides methods for improving fruit quality in plants that have low or reduced levels of Golden2-like (GLK) activity in the green fruit (e.g., cultivated tomato). The methods involve introgressing genes encoding functional GLKs into the plant so that they are expressed in the green fruit of the plant and thereby increase chloroplast biogenesis in the fruit. The plants of the invention have improved fruit quality, such as increased levels of starch, soluble solids, and/or sugars.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Alan B. Bennett, Ann L.T. Powell, Theresa A. Hill, Kalai Lam Cheng, Rosa E. Figueroa-Balderas
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Publication number: 20140380524Abstract: Provided herein is a transgenic plant, seed, or progeny, genetically engineered to overexpress one or more exogenous 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA synthase 1 (HMGS1) in an amount effective to enhance growth and/or seed yield relative to a control plant. Also provided are methods of enhancing plant growth and/or seed yield by genetically engineering a plant to overexpress one or more exogenous HMGS1 in an amount effective to enhance growth and/or seed yield relative to a control plant. The plant belongs to the Solanaceae family, and the one or more exogenous HMGS1 comprise an amino acid sequence at least 77% identical to Brassica juncea HMGS1 as set forth in SEQ ID NO:6. Further provided are methods of screening for a functional variant of Brassica juncea HMGS1.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Mee Len Chye, Pan Liao, Hui Wang, Mingfu Wang
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Publication number: 20140373198Abstract: The present invention relates nucleic acid molecules that are modulated (e.g., upregulated) by nitrogen in corn, to proteins or polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acid molecules, and promoters of these nucleic acid molecules. The present invention relates to a nucleic acid construct having a nucleic acid molecule that is modulated by nitrogen in corn, as well as to expression systems, host cells, plants, and plant seeds having the nucleic acid construct. The present invention also relates to a method of expressing the nucleic acid molecule that is modulated by nitrogen in a plant by growing a transgenic plant or a plant grown from a transgenic seed transformed with the construct. The present invention further relates to an isolated DNA promoter that can be used to direct nitrogen-regulated expression of an isolated nucleic acid in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Patrick S. SCHNABLE, Sudhansu DASH
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Publication number: 20140373189Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a new and distinctive hybrid tomato designated ‘2134649’, to the plants of hybrid tomato ‘E2134649’, to the plant parts of hybrid tomato ‘E2134649’ including the fruit, and to methods for producing a hybrid tomato using ‘E2134649’ as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to the methods for producing other tomato lines derived from hybrid tomato ‘E2134649’.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventor: Marcellinus Jacobus Johannes MOOIJ
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Publication number: 20140366216Abstract: Stress tolerance in plants and plant cells is achieved by using nucleotide sequences encoding enzymes involved in the NAD salvage synthesis pathway and/or the NAD de novo synthesis pathway e.g. for overexpression in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, Véronique Gossele
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Publication number: 20140356515Abstract: The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, NUN 00209 or NUN 00209 TOP which is especially useful as processing tomato.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventor: Steven Schroeder
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Publication number: 20140356516Abstract: The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, NUN 00213 TOP which is especially useful as processing tomato.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventor: Steven Schroeder
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Patent number: 8895817Abstract: A method for breeding tomato plants that produce tomatoes with reduced fruit water content including the steps of crossing at least one Lycopersicon esculentum plant with a Lycopersicon spp. to produce hybrid seed, collecting the first generation of hybrid seeds, growing plants from the first generation of hybrid seeds, pollinating the plants of the most recent hybrid generation, collecting the seeds produced by the most recent hybrid generation, growing plants from the seeds of the most recent hybrid generation, allowing plants to remain on the vine past the point of normal ripening, and screening for reduced fruit water content as indicated by extended preservation of the ripe fruit and wrinkling of the fruit skin.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2009Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: The State of Israel, Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center)Inventor: Arthur A. Schaffer
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Patent number: 8895803Abstract: The present invention relates to tomato plants that exhibit resistance to Botrytis cinerea and methods for developing new inbreds, hybrid, apomictic and genetically engineered tomato plants that possess resistance to Botrytis cinerea and having commercially desirable characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Brad Kane Gabor, Anna Julia Frampton, Mauro Bragaloni, Steven D. Tanksley
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Publication number: 20140342081Abstract: A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found in an expansin gene (LeExp1) of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in their LeExp1 genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the LeExp1 gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that soften more slowly post-harvest without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: ARCADIA BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Trenton G. COLBERT, Susan R. HURST, Ann J. SLADE, Dayna L. LOEFFLER
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Publication number: 20140331366Abstract: Antibodies against influenza hemagglutinin, compositions containing the antibodies, and methods of using the antibodies are provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Vidadi Yusibov, Vadim Mett, Jessica Chichester, Lauren Goldschmidt
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Publication number: 20140331362Abstract: Disclosed are mutant CDK inhibitor (CKI) polypeptides having dominant negative antagonist activity against wild-type CKI proteins, as well as related compositions, including nucleic acids and vectors encoding the mutant CKI polypeptides and transformed host cells and transgenic plants comprising such nucleic acids and vectors. Also disclosed are related methods for using the mutant proteins to modulate cell division in cells, particularly plant cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: TARGETED GROWTH, INC.Inventors: Paul OLIVIER, Jay DEROCHER, James Roberts
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Publication number: 20140317788Abstract: A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the NOR gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that ripen more slowly, rot more slowly, are firmer, and have a longer shelf life post-harvest as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their NOR genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Susan R. HURST, Dayna L. Loeffler, Michael N. Steine
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Publication number: 20140317787Abstract: A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the NOR gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that ripen more slowly, rot more slowly, are firmer, and have a longer shelf life post-harvest as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their NOR genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Susan R. HURST, Dayna L. Loeffler, Michael N. Steine
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Patent number: 8865970Abstract: The present invention provides plant inbred mutant parent lines producing hybrid offspring having at least one heterosis-related phenotype, particularly total yield associated phenotypes, methods for identifying same and hybrid plants produced therefrom. The present invention further discloses heterosis-related genes and provides the corresponding isolated polynucleotides.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.Inventors: Dani Zamir, Zachary B. Lippman, Uri Krieger
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Patent number: 8859863Abstract: The invention relates to tomato plants which may comprise the trait fertilization independent fruit formation, which may be obtainable by introgression from a plant, representative seed of which was deposited with the NCIMB under accession number NCIMB 41626, NCIMB 41627, NCIMB 41628, NCIMB 41629, NCIMB 41630 or NCIMB 41631. Such tomato plant may be obtainable by crossing plants, representative seed of which was deposited with the NCIMB under accession number NCIMB 41626, NCIMB 41627, NCIMB 41628, NCIMB 41629, NCIMB 41630 or NCIMB 41631, with a plant not showing the trait to obtain an F1 population; selfing plants from the F1 population to obtain an F2 population; preventing pollination of the F2 plants and allowing fruit formation to occur; and selecting plants producing fruits as plants showing fertilization independent fruit formation. The invention further relates to parthenocarpic fruits, seeds of the plants and propagation material of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Pieter Martijn Eggink, Dörthe Bettina Dräger
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Publication number: 20140298538Abstract: Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides 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 pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, or 6, as well as variants and fragments thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: ATHENIX CORP.Inventors: Volker Heinrichs, Jayme Williams
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Publication number: 20140298499Abstract: The invention relates to enzymes having xylanase, mannanase and/or glucanase activity, e.g., catalyzing hydrolysis of internal ?-1,4-xylosidic linkages or endo-?-1,4-glucanase linkages; and/or degrading a linear polysaccharide beta-1,4-xylan into xylose. Thus, the invention provides methods and processes for breaking down hemicellulose, which is a major component of the cell wall of plants, including methods and processes for hydrolyzing hemicelluloses in any plant or wood or wood product, wood waste, paper pulp, paper product or paper waste or byproduct. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases, mannanases and/or glucanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Kevin A. Gray, Reinhard Dirmeier
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Publication number: 20140283201Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, and their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising a recombinant DNA molecule comprising a DNA molecule operably linked to a heterologous transcribable DNA molecule, as well as methods of their use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Stanislaw Flasinski, Jun Zhang, Suling Zhao
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Publication number: 20140283224Abstract: The present invention relates to transgenic plants that have increased nitrogen use efficiency, stress tolerance, and/or alleviating a limitation such that yield is increased, or a combination of these and that have been transformed using a novel vector construct including a synthetic isocitrate dehydrogenase (icdh) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also relates to stacking the icdh gene with other exogenous or heterologous genes that modulate nitrogen use in the plant, including a N-acetylglutamate kinase gene. The invention also relates to methods of expressing in plants the nucleic acid molecules corresponding to the nucleic acid sequences that modulate nitrogen use in plants or are modulated by nitrogen conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Iowa Corn Promotion BoardInventors: James McLaren, Brian Vande Berg
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Publication number: 20140283211Abstract: Provided are methods and compositions to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. Also provided are combinations of compositions and methods to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Michael J. Crawford, Michelle L. Gasper, Xiangqian Li, Barry J. Shortt, Deryck Jeremy Williams
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Publication number: 20140245470Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a new and distinctive hybrid tomato designated ‘Caddo’, to the plants of hybrid tomato ‘Caddo’, to the plant parts of hybrid tomato ‘Caddo’ including the fruit, and to methods for producing a hybrid tomato using ‘Caddo’ as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a tomato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to the methods for producing other tomato lines derived from hybrid tomato ‘Caddo’.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.Inventor: William C. KAZOKAS
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Publication number: 20140230088Abstract: The invention provides methods and compositions useful in target sequence suppression and target sequence validation. The invention provides polynucleotide constructs useful for gene silencing, as well as cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides. The invention also provides a method for using microRNA to silence a target sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: MILO AUKERMAN
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Publication number: 20140230085Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SV0594TC and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SV0594TC and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventor: SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.
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Publication number: 20140223596Abstract: The present invention provides use of a plant gene JAZ5a for improving drought-resistance of a plant. It further provides a method for improving the drought-resistance of a plant, comprising enhancing the expression or activity of Jaz5A in said plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventor: Adrianus Johannes Van Tunen
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Publication number: 20140223610Abstract: The present invention relates to bio-engineered photosystems, specifically photosystem II (PSII) having an alternative electron transfer pathway that enables electron flow from PSII to a water-soluble protein electron carrier. The present invention further relates to methods and systems for electron transfer using the bio-engineered photosystems. Such photosystems may be utilized for electrical energy production, hydrogen production and/or reduction of carbon-based gases (for example, CO2 and CO) to liquid fuels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TECHNION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, LTD.Inventors: Noam ADIR, Gadi SCHUSTER, Shirley LAROM, Faris SALAMA
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Publication number: 20140223605Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and/or increased biomass production as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of polypeptides associated with enhanced nitrogen use efficiency in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön
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Publication number: 20140223593Abstract: The present invention relates to a tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum L.) in which the glandular heads of type VI trichomes are absent, and that has a modified composition of flavonoids and volatiles. Furthermore, the typical tomato smell is absent or nearly absent. The plant comprises a mutant allele, which is obtainable from a tomato plant, representative seed of which was deposited under deposit accession number NCIMB 41845. The said mutant allele is located on chromosome 9 between positions 1750800 bp and 4517648 bp, preferably between positions 1939546 bp and 2970346 bp, most preferably at about position 2454946 bp on a physical map of the Solanum lycopersicum genome.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Dörthe Bettina Dräger, Zeger Otto Van Herwijnen, Rudolf VERHOEF, Arie VOGELAAR
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Publication number: 20140223603Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants with improved growth and nitrogen use efficiency expressing nitrate transporter gene, methods of making such plants and methods for improving growth and nitrogen use efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: Plant Bioscience Limited, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityInventors: Guohua Xu, Xiaorong Fan, Qirong Shen, Anthony Miller
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Publication number: 20140215645Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid FORONTI and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid FORONTI and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Bernardus van den Bosch
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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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Patent number: 8785720Abstract: A Lycopersicon esculentum plant comprising within its genome at least one tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) resistance allele and at least one root knot nematode resistance allele, characterized in that the resistance alleles are present in coupling phase at different loci on one chromosome and in that the plant is highly resistant both against TYLCV and to at least one root knot nematode species selected from the group consisting of Meloidogyne arenaria, Meloidogyne incognita and Meloidogyne javanica.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventors: Jacobus Gerardus Joannes Hoogstraten, Carl J. Braun, III
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Patent number: 8785721Abstract: The present invention relates to tomato plants that are resistant to pathogenic plants of the Orobanchaceae family, to methods for producing said plants and to the use thereof. The invention further relates to a method of controlling parasitic plants of the Orobanchaceae family, particularly O. aegyptiaca, in tomato crops and for securing tomato fruit production.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: State of Israel, Ministry of AgricultureInventors: Joseph Hershenhorn, Evgenia Dor, Yoram Kapulnik, Samdar Goldar Weininger, Bruria Ben Dor
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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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Patent number: 8772606Abstract: A series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one non-ripening (NOR) gene of tomato; tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their NOR genes; and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the NOR gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. The tomato plants of the present invention exhibit fruit that ripen more slowly, rot more slowly, are firmer, and have a longer shelf life post-harvest as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their NOR genes.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Susan R. Hurst, Dayna L. Loeffler
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Publication number: 20140182011Abstract: ACBP2 can be used to enhance drought tolerance in genetically modified plants. ACBP2 was observed to be expressed in guard cells, and ACBP2-overexpressing transgenic Arabidopsis were conferred enhanced drought tolerance. Vectors/expression cassettes for conferring drought tolerance to plants/plant material are provided. Methods of using ACBP2 to enhance drought tolerance of plants are provided. Plants and plant material with improved drought tolerance are also provided. Methods for screening for genes with ACBP2-like activity are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONGInventors: Mee Len CHYE, Zhi Yan DU, Mo Xian CHEN
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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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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