Tomato Patents (Class 800/317.4)
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Publication number: 20110289622Abstract: The invention relates to expression cassettes and vectors which contain constitutive promoters of plants and to the use of these expression cassettes or vectors for transgenic expression of nucleic acid sequences, preferably selection markers, in organisms, preferably in plants. The invention further relates to transgenic plants which have been transformed with the expression cassettes or vectors, to cultures, parts or propagation material derived from these plants, and to the use of these plants for the production of food and animal feedstuffs, seed, pharmaceuticals, or fine chemicals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ute Heim, Helke Hillebrand, Irene Kunze, Karin Herbers, Uwe Sonnewald, Eric Glickmann, Wolfgang Lein, Rüdiger Hell, Ricarda Jost
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Publication number: 20110283402Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the separation of elevated Brix from linked but undesirable agronomic traits among progeny with introgressions following a cross between Lycopersicon esculentum and Lycopersicon hirsutum. The invention further provides plants, plant parts, and seeds comprising such elevated Brix, which do not comprise alleles specifying undesirable agronomic traits that are genetically linked to the elevated Brix trait.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: Teresa Beck Bunn, Anna Frampton, Elaine Graham, Joshua J. Lloyd
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Publication number: 20110283377Abstract: 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: May 10, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Inventors: T. Erik Mirkov, Jong Won Park, San-Ji Gao
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Publication number: 20110277179Abstract: 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: September 17, 2008Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Piotr Puzio, Oliver Bl¿sing, Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Sch¿n
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Publication number: 20110277046Abstract: 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: August 28, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Nelson R. Barton, Analia Bueno, Joslin G Cuenca, Tim S. Hitchman, Katie A. Kline, Jonathan D. Lyon, Mark L. Miller, Mark A. Wall, Christopher L.G. Dayton
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Publication number: 20110271403Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transgenic plant transformed with an isolated nucleic acid comprising a plant arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein coding sequence operatively linked to a plant-expressible transcription regulatory sequence, wherein the plant arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein (AIRAP) coding sequence encodes a polypeptide that is at least 95% identical to a polypeptide sequence of SEQ ID NO:8, SEQ ID NO:9, SEQ ID NO:10, SEQ ID NO:11, SEQ ID NO:12, SEQ ID NO:13, or SEQ ID NO:14, wherein the plant arsenite-inducible RNA-associated protein coding sequence encodes a polypeptide that confers resistance to an environmental stress, wherein greater than or equal to about 25% of transgenic plants are resistant to an environmental stress, and wherein the environmental stress inhibits the growth of wild type plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2011Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSInventors: Om Parkash, Anirudha Dixit
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Publication number: 20110263488Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: ATHENIX CORP.Inventors: Nadine Carozzi, Michael G. Koziel, Nicholas B. Duck, Nalini M. Desai, Rong Guo, Daniel John Tomso, Rebekah Deter, Tracy Hargiss
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Publication number: 20110258739Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding ?-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase. The present invention further provides DNA construct comprising the polynucleotide sequence coding for ?-D-N-acetylhexosaminidase in sense or anti-sense orientation, RNAi construct, recombinant vector comprising the construct and host cells comprising the recombinant vector disclosed in the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Asis Datta, Subhra Chakraborty, Niranjan Chakraborty, Vijaykumar Meli Siddesh, Sumit Ghosh
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Publication number: 20110258732Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Joseph Hershenhorn, Evgenia Dor, Yoram Kapulnik, Samdar Goldar Weininger, Bruria Ben Dor
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Publication number: 20110252502Abstract: 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: August 13, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: Athenix Corp.Inventors: Laura C. Schouten, Brian Vande Berg, Volker Heinrichs
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Publication number: 20110252509Abstract: This invention relates generally to a method for producing a transgenic cell with increased gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) content as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Sceince GmbHInventors: Janneke Hendriks, Hardy Schön, Oliver Thimm, Volker Haake, Gunnar Plesch, Piotr Puzio, Astrid Blau, Michael Manfred Herold, Birgit Wendel, Beate Kamlage, Florian Schauwecker
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Publication number: 20110252503Abstract: 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 N-acetyl glutamate kinase (NAGK) gene that modulates nitrogen use in plants. The invention also includes the overexpression and enzymatic characterization of an arginine-insensitive NAGK isolated from a bacterial strain that improves stress tolerance and nitrogen uptake, metabolism or both. In various embodiments, the vector construct includes one or more nucleic acid sequences including SEQ ID NO: 1. The invention also relates to isolated vectors for transforming plants and to antibodies used for detecting transformed plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: IOWA CORN PROMOTION BOARDInventors: James McLaren, Nicholas Duck, Brian Vande Berg, Philip Hammer, Laura Schouten
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Publication number: 20110247089Abstract: Disclosed herein are homozygously modified organisms and methods of making and using these organisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventor: Yannick Doyon
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Publication number: 20110247097Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for modifying the growth characteristics of plants by modifying expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein and/or modifying level and/or activity in a plant of a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein. The invention also relates to transgenic plants having modified growth characteristics, which plants have modified expression of a nucleic acid encoding a 2×C2H2 zinc finger protein. For example yield of crop plants are improved by the methods of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: CROPDESIGN N.V.Inventor: Ana Isabel SANZ MOLINERO
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Publication number: 20110239325Abstract: The present invention provides isolated polynucleotide sequences encoding ?-mannosidase. The present invention further provides DNA constructs comprising the polynucleotide sequence coding for ?-mannosidase in sense or anti-sense orientation, RNAi contructs, recombinant vectors comprising the constructs, and host cells comprising the recombinant vector. The present invention further provides transgenic plants, plant cells, transgenic progeny and seeds expressing the polynucleotide with reduced ?-mannosidase protein accumulation, having enhanced fruit shelf life.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Asis Datta, Subhra Chakraborty, Niranjan Chakraborty, Sumit Ghosh, Vijaykumar Siddesh
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Publication number: 20110231958Abstract: System, including methods and compositions, for making and using transgenic plants and/or transgenic fungi that metabolize phosphite as a source of phosphorus for supporting growth.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella, Damar Lizbeth López-Arredondo, Alfredo Heriberto Herrera-Estrella
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Publication number: 20110225673Abstract: The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant viral enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventor: Stanislaw Flasinski
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Publication number: 20110219472Abstract: 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: March 5, 2010Publication date: September 8, 2011Inventor: Douglas Heath
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Publication number: 20110209254Abstract: Markers associated with Sclerotinia stem rot resistance are provided. Methods of identifying resistant, and susceptible plants, using the markers are provided. Methods for identifying and isolating QTL are a feature of the invention, as are QTL associated with Sclerotinia stem rot resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Feng Han, Maria Katt, Wolfgang Schuh, David M. Webb
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Publication number: 20110209239Abstract: 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: February 19, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventor: DOUGLAS HEATH
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Publication number: 20110209240Abstract: 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: February 19, 2010Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventor: DOUGLAS HEATH
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Publication number: 20110197299Abstract: 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: March 4, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Publication number: 20110195843Abstract: A method for producing a plant with increased yield as compared to a corresponding wild type plant comprising at least the following step: increasing or generating in a plant or a part thereof one or more activities selected from the group consisting of 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase, Adenylate kinase, B2758-protein, Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, cysteine synthase, Exopolyphosphatase, geranylgeranyl reductase, Mating hormone A-factor precursor, mitochondrial succinate-fumarate transporter, modification methylase HemK family protein, Myo-inositol transporter, oxidoreductase subunit, peptidy-prolyl-cis-trans-isomerase, protein kinase, Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, slr1293-protein, YDR049W-protein, YJL181W-protein, and YPL109C-protein-activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Thimm, Gerhard Ritte, Hardy Schön, Oliver Bläsing
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Publication number: 20110197305Abstract: Compositions and methods for imparting a dense and erect panicle phenotype to plants, including polynucleotides, polypeptides, vectors and cells. This phenotype is associated with improving plant traits, such as improving plant yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Xiangdong Fu, Xianzhong Huang, Qian Qian, Zhengbin Liu
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Publication number: 20110195452Abstract: The present invention provides new tools useful for controlling the post-translational modifications of recombinant polypeptides. These tools are particular signal peptides allowing the targeting of recombinant polypeptides during their synthesis in a host cell to specific sub-cellular compartments and a specific designing of said recombinant polypeptides within said sub-cellular compartments. These signal peptides are SEQ ID no 1 to SEQ ID no 31 disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2007Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: Centre National De La Recherche Scientific-CNRSInventors: Véronique Gomord, Claude Saint-Jore-Dupas, Aurelia Boulaflous, Marie-christine Kieffer-Meyer, Loïc Faye
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Publication number: 20110197311Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Inventors: Larry Gilbertson, Xudong Ye
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Publication number: 20110191875Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods for producing androstenedione (4-androstenedione), of improved purity and for modulating its production, for example by deletion or inactivation of ksdA, cxgA, cxgB, cxgC, or cxgD. The invention also provides methods and compositions, including nucleic acids that encode enzymes, for producing 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione (ADD) and related pathway compounds, including 20-(hydroxymethyl)pregna-4-en-3-one and 20-(hydroxymethyl)pregna-1,4-dien-3-one. The compositions of the invention include nucleic acids, probes, vectors, cells, transgenic plants and seeds, transgenic animals, kits and arrays.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2008Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: Verenium CorporationInventors: David Nunn, Catherine Pujol, Kelly Chatman
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Publication number: 20110191894Abstract: Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants are provided. Methods and compositions for promoting senescence in plants by increased expression of an exogenous or endogenous abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants are provided expressing increased abscisic-acid-activated protein kinase-interacting protein, AKIP, during the developmental stage of senescence, thereby promoting enhanced plant senescence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Sarah M. Assmann, Cha Young Kim, Jerome Bove, John Kuk Na
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Publication number: 20110179512Abstract: The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS02420487 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS02420487 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: February 25, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Publication number: 20110179516Abstract: The invention relates to methods for obtaining plants that produce 2n pollen. These plants are useful in plant breeding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Raphael Mercier, Isabelle D'Erfurth, Laurence Cromer
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Publication number: 20110179515Abstract: 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: February 25, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Germán Anastasio Ramón, Jacobus Hoogstraten
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Publication number: 20110179513Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventor: Teresa Beck Bunn
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Publication number: 20110179511Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated rice LP2 promoter sequences and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2010Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Roger L. Thilmony, Mara E. Guttman, James G. Thomson
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Publication number: 20110179514Abstract: 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: February 25, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventor: Giulio Bile
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Publication number: 20110165678Abstract: The present invention concerns a tomato transcription factor of the Ethylene Responsive Factor family (ERF), having an amino acid sequence selected among the group consisting in: a protein having an amino acid sequence as shown in one of SEQ ID NO 1 to NO 28, a variant thereof, a functional fragment thereof and a functional homologous sequence thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE TOULOUSEInventors: Mondher Bouzayen, Alain Latche, Jean-claude Pech, Julien Pirrello, Farid Regad
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Publication number: 20110167517Abstract: The present disclosure provides polynucleotide sequences relating to the diurnal cycling in maize leaf and ear tissues. The disclosure provides polynucleotide sequences and the use of encoded polypeptides associated with the oscillation. The disclosed sequences are responsible for controlling plant growth, source-sink relationships and yield in crop plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Olga N. Danilevskaya, Jeffrey E. Habben, Kevin R. Hayes, Carl R. Simmons, Stephane D. Deschamps
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Publication number: 20110159168Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: ARCADIA BIOSCIENCES, INC.Inventors: Susan R. Hurst, Dayna L. Loeffler, Michael N. Steine, Anna Amen, Dionne Vafeados
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Patent number: 7968773Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with resistance to Botrytis cinerea in tomato, including the steps of crossing a Botrytis-resistant donor tomato plant with a non-resistant, or Botrytis-susceptible, recipient tomato plant, contacting one or more offspring plants with an infective amount of Botrytis, quantitatively determining the disease incidence and/or the rate of lesion growth in the one or more offspring plants, establishing a genetic linkage map that links the observed disease incidence and/or rate of lesion growth to the presence of chromosomal markers of the donor tomato plant in the one or more offspring plants, and assigning to a QTL the contiguous markers on the map that are linked to a reduced disease incidence and/or a reduced lesion growth rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Monsanto Invest N.V.Inventors: Johannes Arnoldus Laurentius van Kan, Arjen ten Have, Willem Hendrik Lindhout, Hendrikus Johannes Finkers, Remco van Berloo, Adriaan Willem van Heusden
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Publication number: 20110154531Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a Membrane Transporter-like Polypeptide (MTP) 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan Mckersie
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Publication number: 20110154536Abstract: The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Andre Roger Abad, Hua Dong, Deirdre M. Kapka-Kitzman, Sue B. Lo, Xiaomei Shi
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Publication number: 20110154530Abstract: This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of Yield-Related Proteins (YRP) and/or Yield and Stress-Related Proteins (YSRP) in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventors: Oliver Bläsing, Oliver Thimm, Piotr Puzio
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Patent number: 7960612Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James Z. Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam, Joseph M. Palys, T. Lynne Reuber, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Robert A. Creelman, Raymond R. Samaha, Pierre E. Broun
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Publication number: 20110138499Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam
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Publication number: 20110130287Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotide molecules isolated from Zea mays and Oryza sativa and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides expression constructs containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The present invention also provides transgenic plants and seeds containing the polynucleotide molecules useful for expressing transgenes in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Gregory R. Heck, Marianne Malven, James D. Masucci, Jinsong You
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Publication number: 20110131672Abstract: 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: October 29, 2010Publication date: June 2, 2011Applicant: Bayer BioScience N.V.Inventors: Marc DE BLOCK, Michael Metzlaff, Veronique Gossele
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Publication number: 20110131688Abstract: The relationship between F-box proteins and proteins involved in the ethylene response in plants is described. In particular, F-box proteins may bind to proteins involved in the ethylene response and target them for degradation by the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway. The transcription factor EIN3 is a key transcription factor mediating ethylene-regulated gene expression and morphological responses. EIN3 is degraded through a ubiquitin/proteasome pathway mediated by F-box proteins EBF1 and EBF2. The link between F-box proteins and the ethylene response is a key step in modulating or regulating the response of a plant to ethylene. Described herein are transgenic plants having an altered sensitivity to ethylene, and methods for making transgenic plant having an altered sensitivity to ethylene by modulating the level of activity of F-box proteins. Methods of altering the ethylene response in a plant by modulating the activity or expression of an F-box protein are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2011Publication date: June 2, 2011Inventors: Hongwei Guo, Joseph R. Ecker
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Publication number: 20110126313Abstract: The invention provides methods, compositions and transformation systems for modifying the levels of transcription factors in plants such as Solanaceous plants, and introducing disease resistance genes into plants, to produce products with elevated levels of antioxidant compounds, including but not limited to flavonols and chlorogenic acid, as well as exhibiting enhanced disease resistance, and optionally altered appearance. Preferred plants are those in which introduced genes are from Solanaceous species.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Norfolk Plant Sciences LimitedInventors: Jie Luo, Eugenio Butelli, Jonathan Jones, Laurence Tomlinson, Catherine Rosemary Martin
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Publication number: 20110126324Abstract: This disclosure relates to a mutant Agrobacterium tumefaciens that is functionally deleted for the atu1060 gene that codes for the cyclic di-GMP synthase Atu1060, as well as methods for its use in transforming plants with desired transgenes. Such bacteria are more virulent than currently used strains of A. tumefaciens, and thus can be used to transform a wider variety of plants, such as plants that are traditionally recalcitrant to such transformation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Stephen K. Farrand, David Michael Barnhart
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Patent number: 7947867Abstract: To achieve full development of the ripe phenotype, climacteric fruits, such as tomato, apple and banana, require synthesis, perception and signal transduction of the plant hormone ethylene. The non-ripening phenotype of the dominant Green-ripe (Gr) and Never-ripe 2 (Nr-2) mutants of tomato is the result of reduced ethylene responsiveness in fruit tissues. In addition a subset of ethylene responses associated with floral senescence, abscission and root elongation are also impacted in mutant plants but to a lesser extent. Using positional cloning we have identified an identical 334 by deletion in a gene of unknown biochemical function residing at the Gr/Nr-2 locus. Consistent with a dominant gain of function mutation, this deletion causes ectopic expression of GR/NR-2, which in turn leads to ripening inhibition. A CaMV35:GR transgene recreates the Gr/Nr-2 mutant phenotype but does not lead to a global reduction in ethylene responsiveness suggesting tissue-specific modulation of ethylene responses in tomato.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: James Giovannoni, Cornelius S. Barry
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Patent number: 7947871Abstract: The invention relates to an improved method for agrobacterium transformation and regeneration of plants. The inventive method is characterized in that it consists in sequentially preparing, inoculating and co-cultivating explants. The preparation of each subsequent lot of plants is carried out after a time interval for transforming plant cells and forming an induced resistance with respect to abiotic and biotic stresses in a leaf discs, thereby making it possible to reduce a necrosis degree and the number of somaclonal variations of the transgenic plants.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2003Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Russian Academy of SciencesInventors: Konstantin Aleksandrovich Shestibratov, Sergey Vladimirovich Dolgov