Patents Assigned to Ceres, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10822616
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Joon-Hyun Park, Roger I. Pennell, Richard Flavell, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Patent number: 10815496
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Joon-Hyun Park, Roger I. Pennell, Richard Flavell, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Patent number: 10815490
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Nickolai Alexandrov, Leonard Medrano, Roger Pennell, Noah Theiss, Danielle Grizard, Shauna J. Davis, Dennis Robles, Michael Portereiko
  • Patent number: 10815494
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased[RCL2] low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Nadzan, Richard Schneeberger, Han Suk Kim, David Van-dinh Dang, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Roger Pennell, Shing Kwok, Hongyu Zhang, Cory Christensen, Jack Okamuro, Fasong Zhou, Wuyi Wang, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Gerard Magpantay, Julissa Sosa, Nestor Apuya, Kerstin Piccolo, Bonnie Hund, Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Peter Mascia
  • Patent number: 10696979
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased levels of cold tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Jack Okamuro, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell
  • Patent number: 10619166
    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 and/or oxidative stress conditions. 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, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline and/or oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 10557143
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating aluminum tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding aluminum tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased tolerance to aluminum and methods of increasing plant yield in soil containing elevated levels of aluminum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Julissa Sosa, Wuyi Wang
  • Patent number: 10323256
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Joon-Huyn Park, Roger I. Pennell, Richard Flavell, Chuan-Yin Wu
  • Patent number: 10240166
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased levels of cold tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Jack Okamuro, Shing Kwok, Roger Pennell
  • Patent number: 10233461
    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 and/or oxidative stress conditions. 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, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline and/or oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 10233460
    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. 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, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 10138492
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Nadzan, Richard Schneeberger, Han Suk Kim, David Van-Dinh Dang, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Patent number: 10106586
    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: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Patent number: 10006043
    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 and/or oxidative stress conditions. 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, growth rate, seedling vigor and/or biomass that are improved in saline and/or oxidative stress conditions with respect to wild-type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Patent number: 9957521
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants with increased tolerance to abiotic stress (e.g., high or low temperature, drought, flood).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Christensen, Nestor Apuya, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Patent number: 9938536
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating aluminum tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding aluminum tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased tolerance to aluminum and methods of increasing plant yield in soil containing elevated levels of aluminum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Julissa Sosa, Wuyi Wang
  • Patent number: 9920328
    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: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Vladimir Makarov, Timothy J. Swaller, Gregory Nadzan, Peter Mascia, Maxim Troukhan, Joel Rarang, James Burns, Kyle Vos Strache
  • Patent number: 9914935
    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, growth rate, fruit and seed yield, tillering 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: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Peter Mascia, Kenneth Feldmann, Cory Christensen, Greg Nadzan
  • Patent number: 9879275
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating low-nitrogen tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding low nitrogen tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased low-nitrogen tolerance levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Nadzan, Richard Schneeberger, Han Suk Kim, David Van-Dinh Dang, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • Patent number: 9828608
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating biomass composition in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass composition-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having altered biomass composition and plant products produced from plants having altered biomass composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventor: Nestor Apuya