Wheat Patents (Class 800/320.3)
  • maize auxin response related genes for controlling plant growth and organ size and their use in improving crop plants
    Patent number: 8575422
    Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides (SEQ ID NO: 11 and 44) of the ZmARGOS (Auxin-Regulated Gene involved in Organ Size) gene family. The invention provides genomic sequence for the ZmARGOS genes. ZmARGOS is responsible for controlling plant growth, organ size and yield in crop plants. Transgenic plants expressing ZmARGOS show a positive impact on biomass accumulation and rate of maize plant growth, as well as an increase in organ size. These maize genes will find utility for enhancing agronomic traits in maize (and other crops).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc.
    Inventors: Mei Guo, Mary A Rupe, Wesley B Bruce, Rajeev Gupta, Carl R Simmons
  • Transgenic plants with enhanced agronomic traits
    Publication number: 20130283461
    Abstract: This invention provides recombinant DNA constructs, transgenic plant nuclei and cells with such recombinant DNA construct for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Mark Scott Abad, Jeffery E. Ahrens, Alice Clara Augustine, Erin Bell, Robert J. Bensen, Srikanth Venkatachalayya, Paolo Castiglioni, Richard E. Cerny, Jaishree M. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Maureen Daley, Jill Deikman, Molian Deng, Todd DeZwaan, Stephen Duff, Michael D. Edgerton, Bradon J. Fabbri, Jason Fenner, Karen Gabbert, Meghan Galligan, Garrett J. Lee, Barry S. Goldman, Deborah J. Hawkins, Steve He, Xianfeng Chen, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Paul Loida, Savitha Madappa, Robert J. Meister, Ming Peng, Donald E. Nelson, Anand Pandravada, Obed Patty, Marie Petracek, Rajani Monnanda Somaiah, Monica P. Ravanello, Richard Johnson, Thomas G. Ruff, Rick A. Sanders, Beth Savidge, Steven H. Schwartz, Shobha Char, Padmini Sudarshana, Jindong Sun, Rebecca L. Thompson-Mize, Virginia Ursin, Dale L. Val, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Kammaradi R. Vidya, K. Vijayalakshmi, Todd C. Weber, Jingrui Wu, Wei Zheng, Zhidong Xie, Dhanalakshmi Ramachandra
  • Sugar and Lipid Metabolism Regulators in Plants III
    Publication number: 20130283480
    Abstract: Isolated nucleic acids and proteins associated with lipid and sugar metabolism regulation are provided. In particular, lipid metabolism proteins (LMP) and encoding nucleic acids originating from Arabidopsis thaliana are provided. The nucleic acids and proteins are used in methods of producing transgenic plants and modulating levels of seed storage compounds. Preferably, the seed storage compounds are lipids, fatty acids, starches or seed storage proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: VOLKER MITTENDORF, HEIKO A. HAERTEL, PETRA CIRPUS
  • YIELD ENHANCEMENT IN PLANTS BY MODULATION OF AP2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR
    Publication number: 20130276171
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for modulating flower organ development, leaf formation, phototropism, apical dominance, fruit development, initiation of roots and for increasing yield in a plant are provided. The compositions include an AP2 transcription factor sequence. Compositions of the invention comprise amino acid sequences and nucleotide sequences selected from SEQ ID NOS: 1-11 as well as variants and fragments thereof. Nucleotide sequences encoding the AP2 transcription factors are provided in DNA constructs for expression in a plant of interest are provided for modulating the level of an AP2 transcription factor sequence in a plant or a plant part are provided. The methods comprise introducing into a plant or plant part a heterologous polynucleotide comprising an AP2 transcription factor sequence of the invention. The level of the AP2 transcription factor polypeptide can be increased or decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: NICHOLAS J. BATE, JENNIFER Y. CHUNG, JEFFREY E. HABBEN
  • Multiple Inducible Gene Regulation System
    Publication number: 20130276156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multiple inducible gene regulation system that functions within cells to simultaneously control the quantitative expression of multiple genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Intrexon Corporation
    Inventors: Tarlochan Singh DHADIALLA, Dean Ervin Cress, Glenn Richard Carlson, Robert Eugene Hormann, Subba Reddy Palli, Arthur John Kudla, Ronald Phillip Herzig, JR., Mohan Philip
  • Yield Increase in Plants Overexpressing the ACCDP Genes
    Publication number: 20130276172
    Abstract: A transgenic crop plant transformed by a 1-AminoCyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Deaminase-like Polypeptide (ACCDP) coding nucleic acid, wherein expression of the nucleic acid sequence in the crop plant results in the plant's increased root growth, and/or increased yield, and/or increased tolerance to environmental stress as compared to a wild type variety of the plant. Also provided are agricultural products, including seeds, produced by the transgenic crop plants. Also provided are isolated novel ACCDPs, and isolated novel nucleic acids encoding ACCDPs, and vectors and transgenic plant containing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Rodrigo Sarria-Millan, Eric R. Garr, Jamie Haertel, Damian Allen, Bryan McKersie
  • GENES AND USES FOR PLANT IMPROVEMENT
    Publication number: 20130269056
    Abstract: Transgenic seed for crops with improved traits are provided by trait-improving recombinant DNA in the nucleus of cells of the seed where plants grown from such transgenic seed exhibit one or more improved traits as compared to a control plant. Of particular interest are transgenic plants that have increased yield. The present invention also provides recombinant DNA molecules for expression of a protein, and recombinant DNA molecules for suppression of a protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Barry S. Goldman, Mark Scott Abad, Jaishree S. Chittoor-Vijayanath, Ronald C. Rish, Faten Shaikh, Joseph C. Mitchell, Diana Wray
  • DROUGHT TOLERANT PLANTS AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS INVOLVING GENES ENCODING MATE-EFFLUX POLYPEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20130269063
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a MATE-efflux polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicants: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC, E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Stanley Luck, Jeffrey Mullen, Hajime Sakai, Scott V. Tingey, Robert Wayne Williams, Norbert Brugiere, Ratna Kumria, Amitabh Mohanty, Rupa Raja
  • GENE INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEED
    Publication number: 20130263328
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of plant improvement, with the identification of the ZmPPR6 gene that is involved in development of the seed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: GENOPLANTE-VALOR
    Inventors: Virginie Guyon, Nikolay Manavski, Reinhold Brettschneider, Udo Wienand
  • Modified Helianthus Annuus Transcription Factor Improves Yield
    Publication number: 20130263327
    Abstract: The invention relates to polynucleotides encoding a modified HaHB4 transcription factor and polynucleotides encoding functionally active fragments and variants of a modified HaHB4 transcription factor as well as vectors and host cells containing these polynucleotides and the polypeptides encoded by these polynucleotides. The invention also encompasses transgenic host cells, plants, seed, pollen, and plant parts containing the polypeptides and/or polynucleotides of the invention. The invention further encompasses methods of producing transgenic host cells, plants, seed, pollen, and plant parts and the processed plant products produced from these transgenic hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: Bioceres, S.A.
    Inventors: Lia Raquel CHAN, Daniel Hector Gonzalez
  • AP2 DOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ODP2 (OVULE DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN 2) AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20130254935
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for modulating plant development are provided. Nucleotide sequences and amino acid sequences encoding Ovule Development Protein 2 (ODP2) proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in a variety of methods including modulating development, developmental pathways, altering oil content in a plant, increasing transformation efficiencies, modulating stress tolerance, and modulating the regenerative capacity of a plant. Transformed plants, plant cells, tissues, and seed are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: William J. Gordon-Kamm, Timothy G. Helentjaris, Keith S. Lowe, Bo Shen, Mitchell C. Tarczynski (Deceased), Peizhong Zheng
  • CRY1I PROTEINS AND GENES FOR INSECT CONTROL
    Publication number: 20130254933
    Abstract: Novel insecticidal toxins isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis that are active against lepidopteran insect pests are disclosed. The DNA encoding the insecticidal toxins can be used to transform various prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to express the insecticidal toxins. These recombinant organisms can be used to control lepidopteran insects in various environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventor: Vance Kramer
  • ENZYMES INVOLVED IN TRITERPENE SYNTHESIS
    Publication number: 20130247245
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of ?-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITED
    Inventors: Anne OSBOURN, Xiaoquan Qi
  • PLANT HEIGHT REGULATORY GENE AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130247242
    Abstract: Provided are a crop height regulatory gene from Arabidopsis thaliana, expression regulatory sequences thereof and uses thereof. The crop regulatory gene can be used to regulate the plant height, volume, tiller, yield, flower organ size, or seed size of crops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventor: Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Heat resistant plants and plant tissues comprising a variant adenosine diphosphate glucose pyrophosphorylase small subunit protein and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 8536407
    Abstract: The subject invention concerns materials and methods for providing plants or plant tissue with increased resistance to heat conditions and/or increased starch biosynthesis. Increased resistance of a plant or plant tissue to heat conditions provides for decreased yield losses as compared to the yield losses generally observed at elevated temperatures. One aspect of the invention concerns polynucleotides that encode a mutant plant small subunit of AGPase. The subject invention also comprises a mutant plant small subunit of AGPase encoded by a polynucleotide of the invention. The subject invention also concerns plants comprising a polynucleotide of the invention and method for making the plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: L. Curtis Hannah, Nikolaos Georgelis
  • Polynucleotides encoding a NAX2 polypeptide and methods for enhancing salinity tolerance in plants
    Patent number: 8536429
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polypeptides, and polynucleotides encoding therefor, with cation transporter activity. In particular, the present invention relates to methods for producing, identifying, and/or breeding transgenic or non-transgenic plants, especially wheat or barley plants, with enhanced tolerance to saline and/or sodic soils, and/or reduced sodium accumulation in an aerial part of the plant. Also provided are plants produced using these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: John Damien Platten, Caitlin Byrt, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Evans Lagudah, Richard Alexander James, Rana Ellen Munns
  • Wheat plants with immunity to wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV)
    Patent number: 8536403
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transgenic wheat cell or wheat plant, the wheat cell or wheat plant comprising a chimeric DNA molecule which encodes a dsRNA molecule which is capable of inhibiting wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) replication, wherein the wheat cell or plant is immune to WSMV. The present invention also provides a chimeric DNA, the chimeric DNA comprising (i) a wheat expressible promoter; (ii) a region which encodes a dsRNA which is capable of inhibiting WSMV replication; and (iii) a transcription termination and polyadenylation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Muhammad Fahim, Philip John Larkin, Ligia Isabel Ayala-Navarrete, Anthony Alan Millar
  • MAIZE CELLULOSE SYNTHASES AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130230900
    Abstract: The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: Kanwarpal Singh Dhugga, Haiyin Wang, Dwight Tomes, Timothy George Helentjaris
  • PLANTS WITH IMPROVED AGRONOMIC TRAITS
    Publication number: 20130232642
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a PRE2 polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen M. Allen, Rajeev Gupta, Shuping Jiao, Robert B. Meeley, Dilbag S. Multani, Robert Williams
  • ARABIDOPSIS DERIVED PROMOTERS FOR REGULATION OF PLANT EXPRESSION
    Publication number: 20130232647
    Abstract: The instant invention is directed to a constitutive promoter for use in plants. The plant genus from which the promoter is derived is Arabidopsis. The invention encompasses the isolated promoter, expression cassettes comprising said promoter and a heterologous nucleic acid segment, and monocot and dicot plants and plant cells transformed with said expression cassettes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventor: Devon Louise Brown
  • COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR CONTROL OF INSECT INFESTATIONS IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20130232646
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to controlling pest infestation by inhibiting one or more biological functions in an invertebrate pest. The invention discloses methods and compositions for use in controlling pest infestation by feeding one or more different recombinant double stranded RNA molecules to the pest in order to achieve a reduction in pest infestation through suppression of gene expression. The invention is also directed to methods for making transgenic plants that express the double stranded RNA molecules, and to particular combinations of transgenic pesticidal agents for use in protecting plants from pest infestation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: James A. Baum, Larry A. Gilbertson, David K. Kovalic, Thomas J. LaRosa, Maolong Lu, Tichafa R.I. Munyikwa, James K. Roberts, Wei Wu, Bei Zhang
  • CELLULOYTIC ENZYMES, NUCLEIC ACIDS ENCODING THEM AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM
    Publication number: 20130227741
    Abstract: The invention is directed to polypeptides having any cellulolytic activity, e.g., a cellulase activity, e.g., endoglucanase, cellobiohydrolase, beta-glucosidase, xylanase, mannanse, ?-xylosidase, arabinofuranosidase, and/or oligomerase activity, including thermostable and thermotolerant activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, and making and using these polynucleotides and polypeptides. The polypeptides of the invention can be used in a variety of pharmaceutical, agricultural, food and feed processing and industrial contexts. The invention also provides compositions or products of manufacture comprising mixtures of enzymes comprising at least one enzyme of this invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicants: Verenium Corporation, BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: BP Corporation North America Inc., Verenium Corporation
  • UBIQUITIN REGULATORY ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20130227742
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a constitutive regulatory element isolated from sorghum. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to one or more of the regulatory sequences of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventor: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar SJ909-371
    Patent number: 8519246
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated SJ909-371, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar SJ909-371, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar SJ909-371 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-371, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-371, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar SJ909-371 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Inventor: Kim Clifford Shantz
  • USE OF MULTIPLE TRANSFORMATION ENHANCER SEQUENCES TO IMPROVE PLANT TRANSFORMATION EFFICIENCY
    Publication number: 20130219564
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Monsanto Technology LLC
  • NOVEL CLASS OF GLYPHOSATE RESISTANCE GENES
    Publication number: 20130217577
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel class of EPSPS enzymes, and nucleic acids useful in encoding the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
  • STRESS TOLERANT PLANTS AND METHODS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130219561
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and DNA molecules that when expressed in a plant produces transgenic plants with improved abiotic stress tolerance. The invention includes plant expression vectors comprising the DNA molecules, and plants containing such DNA molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventors: Santana Dasgupta, Targolli L. Jayaprakash, Carolyn J. Thai, Kottaram Krishnadas Narayanan, Thomas G. Ruff, Stanton B. Dotson
  • POLYPEPTIDE HAVING SWOLLENIN ACTIVITY AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130219571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 73% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 73% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional polypeptide and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Margot Elisabeth Francoise Schoonneveld-Bergmans, Wilbert Herman Marie Heijne, Monica D. Vlasie, Robbertus Antonius Damveld
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-139
    Patent number: 8513504
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-139, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-139, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-139 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-139, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-139, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-139 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar YU908-017
    Patent number: 8513506
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated YU908-017, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar YU908-017, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar YU908-017 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar YU908-017, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar YU908-017, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar YU908-017 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Kim Clifford Shantz
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-112
    Patent number: 8513503
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-112, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-112, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-112 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-112, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-112, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-112 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-196
    Patent number: 8513505
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-196, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-196, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-196 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-196, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-196, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-196 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
  • Polynucleotides, polypeptides and methods for increasing oil content, growth rate and biomass of plants
    Patent number: 8513488
    Abstract: Provided are method of increasing oil content, growth rate, biomass, yield and/or vigor of a plant. The methods are effected by upregulating in the plant an expression level of a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 199, 166-198, 200-221, 229-307, 311-330, 351-353, 355-361, 363-364, 366-368, 218, 222-228, 308-310, 350, 354, 362, 365, 523-649, 786-920, 1047 and 1048. Also provided are polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, polypeptides and transgenic plants expressing same which can be used to increase oil content, growth rate, biomass, yield and/or vigor of a plant and produce oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Evogene Ltd.
    Inventors: Eyal Emmanuel, Gil Ronen, Noa Savir
  • Wheat variety W000350I1
    Patent number: 8513502
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated W000350I1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000350I1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000350I1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000350I1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000350I1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000350I1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventors: Kyle Jay Lively, William Joseph Laskar, Gregory Charles Marshall
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-700
    Patent number: 8513507
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-700, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-700, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-700 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-700, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-700, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-700 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin Moreno-Sevilla
  • PLANTS AND SEEDS OF COMMON WHEAT CULTIVAR BZ6W07-427
    Publication number: 20130212728
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated BZ6W07-427, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar BZ6W07-427 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Dale R. Clark
  • PLANTS AND SEEDS OF COMMON WHEAT CULTIVAR BZ6W07-458
    Publication number: 20130212729
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated BZ6W07-458, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar BZ6W07-458 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Dale R. Clark
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar SJ909-369
    Patent number: 8507775
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated SJ909-369, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar SJ909-369, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar SJ909-369 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-369, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar SJ909-369, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar SJ909-369 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Inventor: Kim Clifford Shantz
  • Plants and seeds of common wheat cultivar WB-249
    Patent number: 8507776
    Abstract: A wheat cultivar, designated WB-249, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and hybrids of wheat cultivar WB-249, and to methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing plants from wheat cultivar WB-249 with themselves or with plants from another wheat variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a wheat plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic wheat plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to wheat varieties or breeding varieties and plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-249, to methods for producing other wheat varieties, lines or plant parts derived from wheat cultivar WB-249, and to the wheat plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing wheat cultivar WB-249 with another wheat cultivar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Inventor: Benjamin Monreno-Sevilla
  • CHLOROPLAST TRANSIT PEPTIDE
    Publication number: 20130205441
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Dow Agrosciences LLC
  • SYNTHETIC BRASSICA-DERIVED CHLOROPLAST TRANSIT PEPTIDES
    Publication number: 20130205440
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for targeting peptides, polypeptides, and proteins to plastids of plastid-containing cells. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns chloroplast transit peptides that may direct a polypeptide to a plastid, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. In some embodiments, the disclosure concerns methods for producing a transgenic plant material (e.g., a transgenic plant) comprising a chloroplast transit peptide, as well as plant materials produced by such methods, and plant commodity products produced therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Dow AgroSciences LLC
  • Chloroplast Expression of Membrane Proteins
    Publication number: 20130202647
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are chloroplast transformation vectors constructed to enable expression and hyperaccumulation of membrane proteins in chloroplasts. Another embodiment relates to plants transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to seeds and other plant tissues transformed with such vectors. Another embodiment relates to a method of increasing expression of membrane proteins in chloroplasts including transforming a plant cell with vectors described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Daniell
  • Plants Having Enhanced Yield-Related Traits and Method for Making the Same
    Publication number: 20130205446
    Abstract: Nucleic acids and the encoded VIM1-like polypeptides, VTC2-like polypeptides, ARF6-like polypeptides or DUF1685 polypeptides are provided. A method of enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression of nucleic acids encoding VIM1-like polypeptides, VTC2-like polypeptides, ARF6-like polypeptides or DUF1685 polypeptides is provided. Plants with modulated expression of the nucleic acids encoding VIM1-like polypeptides, VTC2-like polypeptides, ARF6-like polypeptides or DUF1685 polypeptides have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: BASF Plant Science Company GmbH
    Inventors: Valerie Frankard, Yves Hatzfeld, Christophe Reuzeau, Ana Isabel Sanz Molinero
  • Method and means for improving bowel health
    Patent number: 8501262
    Abstract: A method and composition for improving one or more indicators of bowel health or metabolic health in a mammalian animal. This comprises the delivering to the gastrointestinal tract of the animal an effective amount of an altered wheat starch in the form of or derived from the grain of a wheat plant. The proportion of amylose in the starch of the grain is at least 30% and/or the grain comprises a reduced level of SBEIIa enzyme activity and/or protein relative to wild-type grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
    Inventors: Anthony Richard Bird, Gulay Saygat Mann, Sadequr Rahman, Ahmed Regina, Zhongyi Li, David Lloyd Topping, Matthew Kennedy Morell
  • METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR GENERATING COMPLEX TRAIT LOCI
    Publication number: 20130198888
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for stacking multiple independent transgenic loci into the genome of a plant. Compositions include plants, seeds or plant cells comprising at least one transgenic target site and at least one genomic locus of interest integrated at different genomic sites within a genomic window. Plant breeding techniques can be employed such that the transgenic target site and the genomic locus of interest can be bred together. In this way, multiple independent transgene integrations can be generated within a genomic window to create a complex trait locus. The complex trait locus is designed such that the transgenic target sites and/or genomic loci of interest can segregate independently of each other, thus providing the benefit of altering a complex trait locus by breeding-in and breeding-away specific elements. Various methods can also be employed to modify the target sites such that they contain a variety of polynucleotides of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicants: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company
  • METHOD FOR OBTAINING A WHEAT PLANT WITH IMPROVED YIELD PROPERTIES AND A NEW TYPE OF WHEAT OBTAINED BY SAID METHOD
    Publication number: 20130198891
    Abstract: The description of a method to obtain a wheat plant with improve yield properties that consists in the generation of genetic variability by means of the following stages: a) the construction of a wheat plant FI by means of the crossing of two genetically distant parents and of opposed industrial qualities; b) the permanent application through the whole development of the inflorescence of said plant of a high concentration of sunlight without spectrum filtration; and c) the germination of the resulting seeds and the analysis of the descendants for the search of stable variants having different chromosomal number. Also, the description of wheat plants obtained in this way that preferably have crown root, high production capacity of fertile shoots, shoot capacity, perennial habit, high level of grain productivity, high protein level and industrial qualities similar to the hard wheat of best quality, that qualify to be designated as a new type of wheat commonly called Megawheat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: MEGASEED S.A.
    Inventor: Enrique JORGE THOMAS
  • ORGANISMS HOMOZYGOUS FOR TARGETED MODIFICATION
    Publication number: 20130198878
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are homozygously modified organisms and methods of making and using these organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventor: C/O SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.
  • Wheat variety 25R40
    Patent number: 8492625
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated 25R40, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 25R40, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 25R40 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 25R40 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety 25R40. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 25R40 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventors: Kyle Jay Lively, William Joseph Laskar, Gregory Charles Marshall
  • Wheat variety W000850B1
    Patent number: 8492626
    Abstract: A wheat variety designated W000850B1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W000850B1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W000850B1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W000850B1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W000850B1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W000850B1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc
    Inventors: Kyle Jay Lively, William Joseph Laskar, Gregory Charles Marshall
  • KERNEL PRODUCTIVITY OF PLANTS THROUGH THE MODULATION OF GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE ACTIVITY
    Publication number: 20130185829
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the kernel productivity of a maize plant, wherein said method comprises overexpressing in said plant at least one glutamine synthetase isoenzyme, in order to increase the number and/or size of kernels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: GENOPLANTE-VALOR
    Inventor: GENOPLANTE-VALOR