Tomato Patents (Class 800/317.4)
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Publication number: 20130019344Abstract: The present invention provides thermostable polypeptides related to Arabidopsis Rubisco Activase polypeptides. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides of the invention are also provided. Methods for using the polypeptides and nuclei acids of the invention to enhance resistance of plants to heat stress are encompassed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
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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: 20130007914Abstract: The invention provides several promoters isolated from Oryza sativa, which promoters are capable of driving and/or regulating the expression of an operably linked nucleic acid in a plant. The expression patterns of the promoters according to the invention have been studied in Oryza sativa and some of the promoters displayed specific activity in particular cells, tissues or organs of the plant, while others displayed constitutive expression throughout substantially the whole plant. Some promoters showed weak expression, while others were strongly active.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Yves Hatzfeld, Willem Broekaert
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Publication number: 20130007926Abstract: Protein replacement therapy for patients with hemophilia or other inherited protein deficiencies is often complicated by pathogenic antibody responses, including antibodies that neutralize the therapeutic protein or that predispose to potentially life-threatening anaphylactic reactions by formation of IgE. Using murine hemophilia B as a model, we have developed a prophylactic protocol against such responses that is non-invasive and does not include immune suppression or genetic manipulation of the patient's cells. Oral delivery of coagulation factor IX (F. IX) expressed in chloroplasts, bioencapsulated in plant cells, effectively blocked formation of inhibitory antibodies in protein replacement therapy. Inhibitor titers were mostly undetectable and up to 100-fold lower in treated mice when compared to controls. Moreover, this treatment eliminated fatal anaphylactic reactions that occurred after 4 to 6 exposures to intravenous F. IX protein. While only 20-25% of control animals survived after 6-8 F.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2010Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Henry Daniell, Roland Herzog
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Publication number: 20130007928Abstract: A transgenic plant that overexpresses sucrose synthase. The transgenic plant has a genetic construct that encodes a sucrose synthase peptide.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Miren Edurne Baroja Fernandez, Francisco José Muñoz Perez, Francisco Javier Pozueta Romero, Maria Teresa Moran Zorzano, Nora Alonso Casajus
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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: 20130007905Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 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: June 27, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventor: Ilyong Kim
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Patent number: 8334427Abstract: The present invention generally provides a method to generate broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight disease in plants. More specifically, the present invention provides a method to generate broad-spectrum resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the causal agent of bacterial blight disease of rice, and enhanced resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola, the causal agent of bacterial leaf streak of rice. Xa27, an inducible bacterial blight R gene in rice, was induced by the cognate avrXa27 gene expressed in host. Rice plants carrying the avrXa27 transgene and wild-type Xa27 gene conferred resistance to incompatible and compatible pathogens, and enhanced resistance to X. oryzae pv. oryzicola strain L8. The Xa27-mediated enhanced resistance to X. oryzae pv. oryzicola was also observed in the interaction between IRBB27 and L8 harboring pHM1avrXa27. This was further verified by the fact that the Xa27 gene in IRBB27 was induced by the avrXa27 gene in bacteria.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Temasek Life Sciences LaboratoryInventors: Zhongchao Yin, Dongsheng Tian
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Publication number: 20120317674Abstract: The present disclosure provides hybrid tomatoes that produce better-tasting fruit, methods of producing and identifying the hybrid tomatoes and methods of identifying the chemical composition of a tomato that leads to a better-tasting fruit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventors: Harry J. Klee, Denise Tieman
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Patent number: 8324455Abstract: This invention relates generally to nucleic acid sequences encoding proteins 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Agnes Chardonnens, Harry Wild, Gunnar Plesch, Bryan McKersie
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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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Patent number: 8294000Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH287946. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH287946, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH287946 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH287946.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Mark J. Brinkman, Donn P. Cummings, Kevin D. Eichelberger, Christopher S. Eichhorn, Charles T. Foresman, Gregory J. Holland, Roderick D. Lee, Daniel J. Lubich, Duane A. Potrzeba, Laron L. Peters, W Richard Peterson, Hector Ramirez De Leon, Walter L. Trevisan
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Publication number: 20120263858Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated plant GDSL-lipase polypeptide differentially expressed between the different steps of the plant development and/or the different tissues of the plant, a nucleic acid molecule encoding it, and a plant or part of plant genetically engineered to not express it at least partially.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Bénédicte Bakan, Christophe Rothan, Martine Chamley, Didier Marion, Marie-Laure Girard, Fabien Mounet
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Publication number: 20120266329Abstract: The invention provides polypeptides, including enzymes, structural proteins and binding proteins, polynucleotides encoding these polypeptides, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Polypeptides, including enzymes and antibodies, and nucleic acids of the invention can be used in industrial, experimental, food and feed processing, nutritional and pharmaceutical applications, e.g., for food and feed supplements, colorants, neutraceuticals, cosmetic and pharmaceutical needs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: BP Corporation North America Inc.Inventors: Eric J. Mathur, Cathy Chang
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Publication number: 20120255049Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of selecting a tomato plant comprising exposing a tomato plant and determining whether said plant exhibits tolerance to exposure to continuous light, wherein said tolerance is indicated by decreased level of chlorosis upon said exposure, and further determining whether said plant exhibits a significant increase in yield when exposed to continuous light. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the yield of a tomato plant line, said method comprising selecting a tomato plant by the method of the invention; crossing the thus selected plant with a plant of a said tomato plant line to produce offspring plants; optionally backcrossing or selfing said offspring plant to produce further offspring plants, and selecting from said offspring plants a plant having tolerance to continuous light and having increased yield as compared to said plant of the original tomato plant line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2010Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: MONSANTO INVEST N.V.Inventors: Franciscus Frank Millenaar, Petrus Marinus Johannes Abraham van Poppel
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Publication number: 20120245100Abstract: A plasmid for use in transferring a chicken anemia virus apoptin coding sequence into a plant includes a binary vector suitable for transferring DNA from Agrobacterium tumefaciens to a selected plant, upstream and downstream homologous regions for targeting transfer of the DNA to a specified location in the selected plant genome, a chicken anemia virus apoptin coding sequence operationally configured adjacent to selected plant promoter and terminator segments, and an antibiotic marker coding sequence operationally configured adjacent to selected plant promoter and terminator segments. Transfer of DNA into a plant, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, results in a plant that expresses apoptin. Cancer treatment can include ingesting plant parts containing expressed apoptin. Apoptin for use as a medicine or vaccine can be obtained from the modified plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Brennan Winkler, Ellen Peterson
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Publication number: 20120237972Abstract: The invention relates to the field of glycoprotein processing in transgenic plants used as cost efficient and contamination safe factories for the production of recombinant biopharmaceutical proteins or pharmaceutical compositions comprising these. The invention provides a plant comprising a functional mammalian enzyme providing N-glycan biosynthesis that is normally not present in plants, said plant additionally comprising at least a second mammalian protein or functional fragment thereof that is normally not present in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig OnderzoekInventors: Hendrikus Antonius Cornelis Bakker, Hendrik Jan Bosch
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Publication number: 20120233719Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX15567101 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX15567101 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: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventor: James D. Frantz
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Publication number: 20120233720Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid EX15567631 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid EX15567631 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: October 27, 2011Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventor: JAMES D. FRANTZ
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Publication number: 20120227120Abstract: Provided are hydrolases, including lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases, and polynucleotides encoding them, and methods of making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Further provided are polypeptides, e.g., enzymes, having a hydrolase activity, e.g., lipases, saturases, palmitases and/or stearatases and methods for preparing low saturate or low trans fat oils, such as low saturate or low trans fat animal or vegetable oils, e.g., soy or canola oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Tim HITCHMAN, Christopher L. G. DAYTON, Katie A. KLINE, Jonathan LYON, Mark A. WALL, Nelson R. BARTON
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Publication number: 20120227134Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities of a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase, 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase, 3?-phosphoadenosine 5?-phosphate phosphatase, 4-diphosphocytidyl-2-C-methyl-D-erythritol kinase, 5OS chloroplast ribosomal protein L21, 57972199. R01.1-protein, 60952769. R01.1-protein, 60S ribosomal protein, ABC transporter family protein, AP2 domain-containing transcription factor, argonaute protein, AT1 G29250.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBHInventors: Hardy Schön, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Oliver Bläsing, Stefan Henkes, Koen Bruynseels, Yves Hatzfeld, Valerie Frankard, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero, Christophe Reuzeau, Steven Vandenabeele, Bryan McKersie, Krishna Kolliparra, Christian Dammann
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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: 20120216320Abstract: The invention provides isolated nucleic acids molecules, designated CCP nucleic acid molecules, which encode novel cell cycle associated polypeptides. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing CCP nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and transgenic plants in which a CCP gene has been introduced or disrupted. The invention still further provides isolated CCP proteins, fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-CCP antibodies. Agricultural, diagnostic, screening, and therapeutic methods utilizing compositions of the invention are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: CropDesign N.V.Inventors: Dirk Inze, Veronique Boudolf, Lieven de Veylder, Juan Antonio Torres Acosta, Zoltan Magyar
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Publication number: 20120216315Abstract: The invention provides a transgenic plant, which expresses a transgene encoding a citrate synthase (CS) wherein the transgenic plant seed of the invention is characterized by increased yield and/or enhanced levels of protein, essential amino acids or oil, when compared to an isoline that does not express the transgene; and also provides methods of producing transgenic plants with economically relevant traits and provides expression vectors comprising polynucleotides encoding Citrate Synthase.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2009Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: BASF Plant ScienceInventors: Hanping Guan, Beomseok Seo
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Publication number: 20120216308Abstract: The invention relates to a tomato plant the fruits of which have an improved shelf-life as compared to the fruits of a wild type tomato plant, obtainable by introgressing the increased shelf life trait from the mutant LePQ58 (deposit accession number NCIMB 41531) into a tomato plant with a normal shelf-life. The increased shelf-life may comprise a fruit that shows normal ripening having a fruit firmness at red ripe harvest that is increased by at least 31%, preferably by at least 42%, more preferably by at least 52%, even more preferably by at least 60%, most preferably by at least 70% as compared to a fruit having similar genetic background that lacks the trait of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Pieter Martijn Eggink, Dörthe Bettina Dräger
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Patent number: 8247662Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid HNX12860544 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: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Ilyong Kim
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Publication number: 20120210469Abstract: Methods and means are provided for reducing the phenotypic expression of a nucleic acid of interest in eukaryotic cells, particularly in plant cells, by providing aberrant, preferably unpolyadenylated, target-specific RNA to the nucleus of the host cell. Preferably, the unpolyadenylated target-specific RNA is provided by transcription of a chimeric gene comprising a promoter, a DNA region encoding the target-specific RNA, a self-splicing ribozyme and a DNA region involved in 3? end formation and polyadenylation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2011Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Peter Michael WATERHOUSE, Ming-Bo Wang
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Publication number: 20120210456Abstract: Altering the activity of specific regulatory proteins in plants, for example, with the use of heterologous repression domains fused to HY5 or STH2 clade proteins, can have beneficial effects on plant performance, including improved stress tolerance and yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Rajnish Khanna, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reyber
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Publication number: 20120210455Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of the tomato variety designated Picus. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato variety Picus and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety Picus with itself or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing, and also relates to parts of a plant of tomato variety Picus including the fruit and gametes of such plants. The invention also relates to tomato variety FDS 14-2081, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2081 with itself or another tomato plant. The present invention is also directed to tomato variety FDS 14-2090, and to seeds and plants produced by crossing a plant of tomato variety FDS 14-2090 with itself or another tomato plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventor: Charles W. Fowler
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Publication number: 20120204284Abstract: This invention relates to a tomato fruit with significantly increased firmness due to the presence of at least one genetic element (or quantitative trait loci; QTLs) in the cultivated plant producing said tomato fruit, compared to fruit from a control tomato plant which does not have said genetic element(s). A cultivated tomato plant producing tomato fruit with significantly increased fruit firmness and a method for detecting QTLs linked to significantly increased fruit firmness are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Inventors: Charles James Baxter, Natalie Helene Chapman, Ian Puddephat, Graham Barron Seymour
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Publication number: 20120198589Abstract: A rose is produced in which an introduced gene is only present in a part of the cells thereof, such as cells of the L1 layer of flower petals, but is not present in germ cells such as pollen cells or ovule cells. Since the introduced gene is not propagated to other roses even when this rose is crossed with other roses, the possibility of dispersal of the introduced gene can be completely negated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: JUNICHI TOGAMI, EKATERINA MOURADOVA
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Publication number: 20120192305Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid HNS 12846080 and parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of such plants, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, including 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 6, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Ilyong KIM, Maria Rita MOGNO
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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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Publication number: 20120185963Abstract: The present invention provides a method for disrupting pollen development in a plant, the method comprising inhibiting the expression of an endogenous nucleic acid molecule which is, under normal conditions, detectably expressed in anther tissue of a plant during pollen formation, and which codes for a protein belonging to the MYB class of DNA binding transcription factors. Particularly, the nucleic acid molecule whose expression is blocked encodes MYB 32 or MYB 103. The invention also provides nucleic acid molecules for use in the method, use of the method in producing male sterile plants and transgenic plants produced in accordance with the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Roger Parish, Song Li, Sylvana Iacuone, Roger Kalla, Trudi Higginson
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Publication number: 20120185975Abstract: A glycosyltransferase promoter and a recombinant nucleic acid, plant cell and transgenic plant containing thereof are provided. The promoter includes a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1˜7, a fragment having at least 10 contiguous bases of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1˜7 or a combination thereof, or a nucleotide sequence having 90% or more identity to the nucleotide sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1˜7.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Inventors: Shu-Jiau CHIOU, Cheng-Yu Lee, Pei-Hsuan Wei, Jui-Hung Yen, Cheng-Li Fang
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Patent number: 8222486Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of increasing the pathogen resistance in transgenic plants and/or plant cells, where a DNA sequence which codes for a protein with a leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) domain and/or a kinase activity is introduced into the plant or plant cell and expressed therein. The present invention also relates to the use of nucleic acids which code for such a protein, for the generation of transgenic plants or plant cells with an increased pathogen resistance. The present invention furthermore relates to nucleic acid sequences which code for a protein which confers an increased pathogen resistance in plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Dimitar Douchkov, Patrick Schweizer
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Publication number: 20120174248Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS02326502 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS02326502 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 5, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Inventor: Giulio Bile
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Publication number: 20120174247Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS02450650 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS02450650 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 5, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Publication number: 20120167244Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01059664 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01059664 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: December 12, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Germán Anastasio Ramón, Jacobus Hoogstraten
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Publication number: 20120167251Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Shruti Agarwal, Daniel John Tomso, Rong Guo
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Publication number: 20120164303Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Pieter Martijn Eggink, Dörthe Bettina Dräger
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Publication number: 20120159665Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred parent line FDS 15-2102. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01544291 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: Douglas Heath
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Publication number: 20120151634Abstract: A method for determining the resistance of a pest to a plant that produces insecticidal toxins. The method involves sampling pests in fields with known pest problems, and in control fields with no known pest problems. Eggs are obtained from the sample pest populations, and larvae hatched from the eggs are evaluated in laboratory bioassays for their survival on two transgenic crop hybrids, each of which contain a unique toxin targeting the pest, and two near isogenic hybrids that lack a gene for the toxin. Mortality rates are determined by counting the larvae recovered, and measuring the larvae instars based on head capsule width to calculate the resistance levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.Inventor: Aaron John Gassmann
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Publication number: 20120151619Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS01533588 and the parent lines thereof, such as inbred tomato line FDR 15-2090. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS01533588 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: June 14, 2012Inventor: Douglas Heath
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Patent number: 8198510Abstract: Isolated nucleic acid molecules that confer resistance to the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris are provided. These molecules may be introduced into plants that are otherwise susceptible to infection by this bacterium in order to enhance the resistance of the plant to this plant pathogen. Additionally provided are isolated polypeptides and isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising plant promoters. Methods of using the nucleic acid molecules to increase the resistance of plants to pathogens and to express genes of interest in plants are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Two Blades FoundationInventors: Thomas Lahaye, Ulla Bonas, Patrick Römer
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Publication number: 20120144514Abstract: The present invention provides a method for the production of S. lycopersicum plants having an average sympodial index of 2 and producing red-colored fruits comprising crossing a plant of S. lycopersicum capable of producing red-colored fruits, with a plant of a Solanum spp. having an average sympodial index of 2, collecting the seeds resulting from the cross, regenerating the seeds into plants, providing one or more backcross generations, selfing the backross plants, growing the selfed seed into plants, and identifying and selecting plants having an average sympodial index of 2 and producing red-colored fruits.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Monsanto Invest N.V.Inventors: Anita Afke de Haan, Marleen van Luijk, Bram Rozier
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Publication number: 20120137381Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS 01565172 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS 01565172 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: November 30, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventor: Douglas Heath
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Publication number: 20120117867Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant whereby the method comprises at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities of a polypeptide selected from the group consisting of 26S proteasome-subunit, 50S ribosomal protein L36, Autophagy-related protein, B0050-protein, Branched-chain amino acid permease, Calmodulin, carbon storage regulator, FK506-binding protein, gamma-glutamyl-gamma-aminobutyrate hydrolase, GM02LC38418-protein, Heat stress transcription factor, Mannan polymerase II complex subunit, mitochondrial precursor of Lon protease homolog, MutS protein homolog, phosphate transporter subunit, Protein EFR3, pyruvate kinase, tellurite resistance protein, Xanthine permease, and YAR047C-protein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbHInventors: Janneke Hendriks, Oliver Thimm, Philip Groth, Alexandre Prokoudine, Gerhard Ritte, Claudia König, Resham Kulkarni, Krishna Kollipara
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Patent number: 8178757Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS02431185 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS02431185 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: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Patent number: 8178758Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS02431185 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS02431185 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: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Seminis Vegetable Seed, Inc.Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn