Patents Assigned to Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd.
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Patent number: 8163975Abstract: The present invention provides a method for disrupting pollen development in a plant, the method comprising inhibiting the expression of an endogenous nucleic acid molecule which is, under normal conditions, detectably expressed in anther tissue of a plant during pollen formation, and which codes for a protein belonging to the MYB class of DNA binding transcription factors. Particularly, the nucleic acid molecule whose expression is blocked encodes MYB 32 or MYB 103. The invention also provides nucleic acid molecules for use in the method, use of the method in producing male sterile plants and transgenic plants produced in accordance with the method.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignees: LA Trobe University, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: Roger Parish, Song Li, Sylvana Iacuone, Roger Kalla, Trudi Higginson
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Patent number: 8093451Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, AgResearch LimitedInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Jason Simmonds, Amanda Winkworth, Stephen Panter
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Publication number: 20110277186Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20110277187Abstract: The present invention relates to the modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, to methods of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells, and to related nucleic acids and constructs. The present invention also relates to 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 to related nucleic acids and constructs. The present invention also relates to methods of enhancing the productivity of biochemical pathways and, more particularly, to fusion proteins in plants, and to related nucleic acids and constructs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicants: MOLECULAR PLANT BREEDING NOMINEES LTD, AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Megan Elizabeth Griffith, Luciano Gaston Martelotto
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Publication number: 20110262422Abstract: The invention provides a method of treatment of any disorder in which administration of angiogenin is beneficial wherein the angiogenin is administered orally. Particularly, the oral angiogenin does not require a carrier or excipient or for the protein to be encapsulated or subjected to any other mechanism to improve its oral bioavailability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2009Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicants: MURRAY GOULBURN CO-OPERATIVE CO., LIMITED, AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: Benjamin Cocks, Angus Tester, Peter Hobman, Matthew McDonagh
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Patent number: 8017370Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for organic acid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, organic acid biosynthesis and secretion in plants. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of citrate synthase (CS) and/or malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and/or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in plants to modify, for example, organic acid synthesis and secretion.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Ramiro Mendez, Stephen Panter, Marcel Labandera
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Publication number: 20110219475Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for organic acid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, organic acid biosynthesis and secretion in plants. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of citrate synthase (CS) and/or malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and/or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in plants to modify, for example, organic acid synthesis and secretion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Ramiro Mendez, Stephen Panter, Marcel Labandera
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Patent number: 8008543Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, more particularly flavonoid biosynthesis-regulating transcription factors, 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 present invention relates to a PURPLE ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT 1 (PAP1) or PAP1-like transcription factor.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LtdInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20110191905Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for fatty acid biosynthesis enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, fatty acid biosynthesis in plants. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences of diacylglycerol acyltransferase enzymes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicants: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD, AGRESEARCH LIMITEDInventors: Gregory Thomas Bryan, Margaret Fiona Burling, Nicholas John Roberts, Alana Jean Trollope, Derek Ross Woodfield
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Patent number: 7960608Abstract: 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: July 19, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services PTY LTDInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Patent number: 7906325Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for fatty acid biosynthesis enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, fatty acid biosynthesis in plants. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences of diacylglycerol acyltransferase enzymes.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, AgResearch LimitedInventors: Gregory Thomas Bryan, Margaret Fiona Burling, Nicholas John Roberts, Alana Jean Trollope, Derek Ross Woodfield
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Patent number: 7880054Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (1) like (CAD1L) polypeptides. CAD1L polypeptides are produced in a plant in the same organs and the same developmental stages and processes of CAD1 and are likely to be involved in the same developmental processes as CAD enzymes. CAD1L-like sequences are also disclosed. They can be used for modification of, for example, lignification, cellulose, degradation, plant cell walls or plant defense response.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty LtdInventors: German Spangenberg, Michael Emmerling, Eng Kok Ong, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge
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Publication number: 20100275330Abstract: Genetic constructs capable of manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells of a plant, said genetic constructs include a promoter operatively linked to a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial FT enzyme. These constructs can be used in modification of fructan biosynthesis in plants and, more particularly, for manipulating fructan biosynthesis in photosynthetic cells. The constructs can also be used for increasing plant biomass and, more particularly, for 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: March 12, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge
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Patent number: 7767416Abstract: 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: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd, Agresearch LimitedInventors: German Spangenberg, Timothy Ivor Sawbridge, Eng-Kok Ong, Michael Emmerling
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Publication number: 20100192259Abstract: 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: October 23, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicants: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD, LA TROBE UNIVERSITYInventors: German Spangenberg, Carl McDonald Ramage, Melissa Ann Palviainen, Roger W. Parish, Joshua Heazlewood
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Publication number: 20100186114Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: German Spangenberg, Aidyn Mouradov
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Patent number: 7626082Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for proteins involved in the control of flowering in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of flowering in plants. In particular, the present invention relates to nucleic acids or nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) polypeptides.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: December 1, 2009Assignees: Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd., AgResearch LimitedInventors: Igor Kardailsky, Bruce Edward Veit, Natasha Talei Forester, Milan Gagic, Kim Archer Richardson, Martin John Faville, Gregory Thomas Bryan
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Publication number: 20090133160Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicants: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD, AGRESEARCH LIMITEDInventors: Richard William Scott, Vickery Laurence Arcus, Nicholas John Roberts
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Publication number: 20090133155Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2006Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTDInventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20090113573Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids encoding flavonoid biosynthetic enzymes, more particularly flavonoid biosynthesis-regulating transcription factors, 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 present invention relates to a PURPLE ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT 1 (PAP1) or PAP1-like transcription factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2006Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA SERVICES PTY LTD.Inventors: Aidyn Mouradov, German Spangenberg