Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Marcia R. Morton
  • MAP kinase phosphatase mutant
    Patent number: 6566511
    Abstract: The present invention relates to DNA encoding proteins contributing to the regulation of a plant's response to DNA damage. DNA according to the invention comprises an open reading frame encoding a protein characterized by a stretch of amino acids or component amino acid sequence having 40% or more identity with an aligned component sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3. Preferably the DNA encodes a MAP kinase phosphatase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Ekaterina Revenkova, Jurek Paszkowski
  • Grain processing method and transgenic plants useful therein
    Patent number: 6531648
    Abstract: The invention provides novel methods of processing grain, such as corn and soybeans, utilizing thioredoxin and/or thioredoxin reductase to enhance extractability and recovery of starch and protein. The invention further provides novel transgenic plants expressing thermostable thioredoxin and/or thioredoxin reductase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Michael B. Lanahan, Nalini Manoj Desai, Pamela Y. Gasdaska, Stephen Arthur Goff
  • Method for achieving site specific integration of exogenous DNA delivered by non-biological means to plant cells
    Patent number: 6410329
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of site directed integration of an exogenous DNA molecule by co-delivery of a gene of interest flanked by nucleotide sequences recognized by a recombinase and a mRNA encoding the homologous recombinase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Novartis Finance Corporation
    Inventors: Genevieve Hansen, MaryDell Chilton, Janet Louise Suttie
  • Hygromycin-resistant transgenic plants
    Patent number: 6365799
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to hygromycin-resistant transgenic plants and methods for producing such plants. The transgenic plants of the invention comprise gene constructs which encode and express hygromycin phosphotransferase or functional portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Clive Waldron
  • ClpP plastid promoter sequence
    Patent number: 6362398
    Abstract: A novel promoter isolated from the 5′ flanking region upstream of the coding sequence of the Arabidopsis plastid clpP gene is described. Also described are a novel method for utilizing protein-coding regions of plastid genes to isolate intervening regulatory sequences and a novel method for improving plastid transformation efficiency using exogenous plastid promoters that differ in nucleotide sequence from native plastid promoters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventor: Peter Bernard Heifetz