Patents Assigned to Ceres, Inc.
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7868155
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Ping Lu, Roger Pennell, Jack Okamuro, Richard Schneeberger, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7851608
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhihong Cook, Yiwen Fang, Ken Feldmann, Edward A Kiegle, Shing Kwok, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Richard Schneeberger, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Phosphate use efficiency
    Publication number: 20100313297
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to pH or increased phosphorus efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Julissa SOSA, Greg Nadzan
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED GROWTH RATE AND BIOMASS IN PLANTS GROWN IN SALINE CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20100306873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of improved plant size, vegetative growth, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants challenged with saline conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Julissa Sosa
  • PROMOTER, PROMOTER CONTROL ELEMENTS, AND COMBINATIONS, AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100299784
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Leonard MEDRANO, Yiwen Fang, Richard Schneeberger, Yu-Ping Lu, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Jack Okamuro
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7838650
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Roger Pennell, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Yu-Ping Lu, Yiwen Fang, Shing Kwok, Van-Dinh Dang, Zhihong Cook, Jack Okamuro, Nestor Apuya, Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Edward A. Kiegle, Leonard Medrano
  • ROOT ACTIVE PROMOTERS, AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100269222
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to root active promoter sequences, polynucleotide constructs comprising the root active promoters and methods of identifying the root active promoters, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present root active promoters to modulate transcript levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: LEONARD MEDRANO, KENNETH FELDMANN, TATIANA TATARINOVA
  • Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated plant growth rate and biomass in plants
    Patent number: 7803983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Peter Mascia, Kenneth Feldmann, Richard Schneeberger, Greg Nadzan
  • Modulating plant alkaloids
    Patent number: 7795503
    Abstract: Materials and methods are provided for identifying regulatory region-regulatory protein associations and modulating expression of a sequence of interest. For example, a plant cell is provided containing a regulatory protein that can modulate expression of one or more genes involved in alkaloid biosynthesis in plants, which, in turn, can modulate the amount and/or rate of biosynthesis of one or more alkaloid compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Steven Craig Bobzin, Joon-Hyun Park
  • INCREASING UV-B TOLERANCE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100192261
    Abstract: Methods and materials related to UV-B tolerance in plants are disclosed, e.g., plants and seeds having a cell containing an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide having UV-B tolerance activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Shing Kwok, Kenneth Bounds
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING ENHANCED HEAT TOLERANCE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100170012
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating heat tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding heat tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well a methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased heat tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased heat tolerance levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: CERES,INC
    Inventor: Wuyi Wang
  • PROMOTER, PROMOTER CONTROL ELEMENTS, AND COMBINATIONS, AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100170002
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to promoter sequences and promoter control elements, polynucleotide constructs comprising the promoters and control elements, and methods of identifying the promoters, control elements, or fragments thereof. The invention further relates to the use of the present promoters or promoter control elements to modulate transcript levels in plants, and plants containing such promoters or promoter control elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Leonard Medrano, Yiwen Fang, Richard Schneeberger, Yu-Ping Lu, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Jack Okamuro
  • SHADE TOLERANCE IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100154082
    Abstract: Materials and methods for increasing shade tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding shade-tolerance polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased shade tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased shade tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Shing Kwok, Amy Jo Miyamoto
  • Nucleotide Sequences and Polypeptides Encoded Thereby Useful for Modifying plant Characteristics
    Publication number: 20100146663
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased nitrogen use efficiency. The present invention further relates to nucleotide sequences and the use of those nucleotide sequences in the genetic-engineering of plants to display enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and utilization capacities, grow larger, more efficiently or rapidly, and/or have enriched nitrogen contents in vegetative and/or reproductive plant parts and/or increased biomass. More particularly, this invention relates to producing transgenic plants engineered to have altered expression of key components in the nitrogen assimilation and utilization pathways. The engineered plants may be productively cultivated under conditions of low nitrogen fertilizer input or in nitrogen poor soils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio MARGOLLES-CLARK, Gerard Magpantay
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED PLANT SIZE AND BIOMASS IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20100119690
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides able confer the trait of modulated plant size, vegetative growth, organ number, plant architecture and/or biomass in plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. FELDMANN, Greg Nadzan
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND POLYPEPTIDES ENCODED THEREBY USEFUL FOR MODIFYING PLANT CHARACTERISTICS IN RESPONSE TO COLD
    Publication number: 20100115670
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating growth levels in plants under cold stress conditions are disclosed. This application provides plants having increased cold tolerance, e.g., increased growth rate, increased vegetative growth, increased seedling vigor and/or increased biomass under cold stress conditions as compared to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions, as well as materials and methods for making plants and plant products having increased growth levels under cold stress conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: Cory Christensen
  • Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying nitrogen use efficiency characteristics in plants
    Patent number: 7696409
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased nitrogen use efficiency. The present invention further relates to nucleotide sequences and the use of those nucleotide sequences in the genetic-engineering of plants to display enhanced nitrogen assimilatory and utilization capacities, grow larger, more efficiently or rapidly, and/or have enriched nitrogen contents in vegetative and/or reproductive plant parts and/or increased biomass. More particularly, this invention relates to producing transgenic plants engineered to have altered expression of key components in the nitrogen assimilation and utilization pathways. The engineered plants may be productively cultivated under conditions of low nitrogen fertilizer input or in nitrogen poor soils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Gerard Magpantay
  • Sequence-determined DNA fragments encoding cytochrome P450 proteins
    Patent number: 7691991
    Abstract: The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3? termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND POLYPEPTIDES ENCODED THEREBY USEFUL FOR MODIFYING PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20100083407
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Feldmann, Vyacheslav Brover, Vladimir Makarov, Timothy Swaller
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL AND/OR ORNAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS TO PLANTS BY MODULATING ABSCISSION
    Publication number: 20100064392
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating abscission and/or inflorescence development time levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding abscission and/or inflorescence development time-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having modulated abscission and/or inflorescence development time levels and plant products produced from plants having such levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Dennis YANG, Wuyi Wang