Patents Assigned to Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd.
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Publication number: 20140201868Abstract: The present invention relates to fungi of Acremonium spp, wherein said fungi are purified or isolated from plants of the Brachiaria-Urochloa complex and wherein, when said fungi are inoculated into a plant, said plant has improved resistance to diseases and/or pests relative to an uninocualated control plant. The present invention also relates to plants inoculated with such fungi, products produced by the fungi and related genes, proteins and methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge
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Publication number: 20140075598Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in plants. More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for ice recrystallisation inhibition proteins (IRIPs) in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of plant response to freezing and/or low temperature stress. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to polypeptides involved in tolerance to freezing and/or low temperature stress in Deschampsia and Festuca species.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Peter John Ulrik, Renata Martina Polotonianka
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Patent number: 8633355Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of: MADS box factor, WRKY box factor, MYC factor, TT1, HLH factor, MYB factor, FMT, UG3E, GST, OMT, RT, CYTb5, laccase, and ABC transporter proteins, and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov
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Publication number: 20140007291Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. More particularly, the flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme is selected from the group consisting of chalcone isomerase (CHI), chalcone synthase (CHS), chalcone reductase (CHR), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), leucoanthocyanidin reductase (LCR), flavonoid 3?, 5? hydrolase (F3?5?H), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), flavonoid 3?-hydroxylase (F3?H), phenylalanine ammonia-olyase (PAL) and vestitone reductase (VR), and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicants: AgResearch Limited, Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Eng-Kok Ong, Michael Emmerling
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Publication number: 20130340117Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), Ieucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20130340118Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), Ieucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Patent number: 8569064Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids and nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. More particularly, the flavonoid biosynthetic enzyme is selected from the group consisting of chalcone isomerase (CHI), chalcone synthase (CHS), chalcone reductase (CHR), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (DFR), leucoanthocyanidin reductase (LCR), flavonoid 3?,5? hydrolase (F3?5?H), flavanone 3-hydroxylase (F3H), flavonoid 3?-hydroxylase (F3?H), phenylalanine ammonia-olyase (PAL) and vestitone reductase (VR), and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd., AgResearch LimitedInventors: German Spangenberg, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Eng-Kok Ong, Michael Emmerling
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Patent number: 8551547Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of an angiogenin-enriched fraction from a milk product, the process comprising contacting the milk product with a cation exchange resin and eluting the angiogenin-enriched fraction from the cation exchange resin with a mobile phase. The invention also provides angiogenin-enriched fractions produced by process and food products, nutraceuticals and pharmaceutical comprising such angiogenin.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2007Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignees: Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co., Limited, Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Brown, Michelle Rowney, Peter Hobman, Matthew McDonagh, Angus Tester, Benjamin Cocks
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Publication number: 20130254942Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of manipulating senescence in plants. The invention also relates to vectors useful in such methods, transformed plants with modified senescence characteristics and plant cells, seeds and other parts of such plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: LA TROBE UNIVERSITY, AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: German Spangenberg, Carl McDonald Ramage, Melissa Ann Palviainen, Roger W. Parish, Joshua Heazlewood
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Publication number: 20130243728Abstract: The invention relates to a recombinant microorganism comprising a transgene encoding angiogenin and optionally follistatin, a food product, beverage product or animal feed produced from or comprising said microorganism and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicants: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD, Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. LimitedInventors: Matthew McDonagh, Benjamin Cocks, Angus Tester, Ross Crittenden
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Patent number: 8519222Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, flavonoid-regulating transcription factors and a flavonoid-specific membrane transporter in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flavonoid biosynthesis in plants. The present invention also relates to constructs and vectors including such nucleic acids, and related polypeptides. More particularly, the protein involved in flavonoid biosynthesis is selected from the group consisting of TRANSPARENT TESTA 12 (TT12), TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA 1 (TTG1), TRANSPARENT TESTA 2 (TT2), TRANSPARENT TESTA 8 (TT8), leucoanthocyanidin dioxygenase (LDOX), cinnamate-4-hydroxylase (C4H), 4-coumaroyl:CoA-ligase (4CL); and functionally active fragments and variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20130104263Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for identifying and/or characterising an endophyte strain, said method including providing a plurality of samples of endophytes, subjecting said endophytes to genetic analysis, subjecting said endophytes to metabolic analysis and selecting endophytes having a desired genetic and metabolic profile. The present invention also relates to novel endophytes having a desired toxin profile wherein the endophyte produces significantly less toxic alkaloids compared with a control endophyte such as standard toxic (ST) endophyte; and/or significantly more alkaloids conferring beneficial properties compared with a control endophyte such as ST endophyte. The present invention also relates to endophyte variants having a desired genetic and metabolic profile, wherein said endophyte variants possess genetic and/or metabolic characteristics that result in a beneficial phenotype in a plant harbouring or otherwise associated with the endophyte variant.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Carlos Spangenberg, Kathryn Michaela Guthridge, John White Forster, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Emma Jane Isobel Ludlow, Jatinder Kaur, Simone Jane Rochfort, Maia Andrea Rabinovich, Piyumi Ekanayake
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Publication number: 20130039889Abstract: The invention relates to a recombinant microorganism comprising a transgene encoding angiogenin and optionally follistatin, a food product, beverage product or animal feed produced from or comprising said microorganism and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: February 14, 2013Applicants: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD, Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. LimitedInventors: Matthew McDonagh, Benjamin Cocks, Angus Tester, Ross Crittenden
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Publication number: 20120331575Abstract: The invention provides a non-human transgenic animal comprising a transgene encoding angiogenin and food products comprising or obtained from the non-human transgenic animal and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicants: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTD, Murray Goulburn Co-Operative Co. LimitedInventors: Peter Hobman, Matthew McDonagh, Benjamin Cocks, Angus Tester
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Publication number: 20120328591Abstract: The invention provides a method of improving the oral delivery of a therapeutic agent, comprising the step of linking the therapeutic agent to a carrier protein comprising angiogenin, fusion proteins or conjugates comprising angiogenin and a therapeutic agent and their use in medicine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicants: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD, MURRAY GOULBURN CO-OPERATIVE CO., LTD.Inventors: Matthew McDonagh, Angus Tester, Benjamin Cocks, Ross Crittenden, Jianghui Wang
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Publication number: 20120309092Abstract: The present invention relates to plant-produced angiogenins, to related plant cells, plant calli, plants, seeds and other plant parts and products derived therefrom and to uses of plant-produced angiogenins. The present invention also relates to expression of angiogenin genes in plants and to related nucleic acids, constructs and methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Jianghui Wang, Benjamin Graeme Cocks, Matthew Knight, Matthew McDonagh
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Patent number: 8309794Abstract: The present invention relates to constructs including one or more nucleic acids encoding two or more oleosin repeat units, and methods of use thereof. The present invention also relates to recombinant polypeptides including two or more oleosin repeat units, and methods of use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, AgResearch LimitedInventors: Richard William Scott, Vickery Laurence Arcus, Nicholas John Roberts
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Publication number: 20120204289Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of identifying a gene encoding a polypeptide or polypeptide isoform which is substantially more active in either a proanthocyanidin (PA) or anthocyanin (ANT) pathway of a plant, said method including providing material from said plant; and an oligonucleotide probe capable of hybridizing with RNA from a gene encoding a polypeptide which is active in a flavonoid biosynthetic pathway; extracting RNA from said plant material; hybridizing the oligonucleotide probe with the RNA to generate an expression profile; measuring PA and/or ANT levels in said plant material to generate a metabolic profile; comparing said expression profile with said metabolite profile to identify said gene encoding a polypeptide or polypeptide isoform which is substantially active in either a PA or ANT pathway.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20120144526Abstract: Genetic constructs capable of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells of a plant include a promoter, or functionally active fragment or variant thereof, operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial FT enzyme, or a functionally active fragment or variant thereof. Such constructs can be used in the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to methods of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells, for increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, to methods of enhancing biomass yield and/or yield stability, including shoot and/or root growth in a plant, and for enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge
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Publication number: 20120131695Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, flavonoid biosynthesis in plants, and more specifically the modification of the content of condensed tannins. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of chalcone synthase (CHS) and/or dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (BAN) and/or leucoanthocyanidine reductase (LAR) in plants to modify, for example, flavonoid biosynthesis or more specifically the content of condensed tannins.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicants: AGRESEARCH LIMITED, AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Jason Simmonds, Amanda Winkworth, Stephen Panter