Patents Assigned to Ceres, Inc.
  • Nucleotide sequences and polypeptides encoded thereby useful for modifying plant characteristics
    Patent number: 8471099
    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: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Gerard Magpantay
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED GROWTH RATE AND BIOMASS IN PLANTS GROWN IN SALINE CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20130160163
    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: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: CERES, INC.
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND POLYPEPTIDES ENCODED THEREBY USEFUL FOR MODIFYING PLANT CHARACTERISTICS AND PHENOTYPES
    Publication number: 20130139278
    Abstract: Plants, plant cells, plant material, seed of plants and regenerated plants comprising a nucleic acid molecule that encodes an amino acid sequence which confers at least one improved characteristic to said plants, plant cells, plant material, seed of plants and regenerated plants as compared to wild-type plants cultivated under identical conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai ALEXANDROV, Vyacheslav Brover, Peter Mascia, Ken Feldmann
  • PROMOTER, PROMOTER CONTROL ELEMENTS, AND COMBINATIONS, AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130117881
    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: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: Ceres, Inc.
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20130117886
    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, sterility or seedling lethality 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 such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: Ceres, Inc.
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8389805
    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: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Shing Kwok, Nickolai Alexandrov, Tatiana Tatarinova, Yiwen Fang, Roger Pennell, Yu-Ping Lu, Leonard Medrano, Zhihong Cook, Kenneth A. Feldmann
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODIFIED PHENOTYPE CHARACTERISTICS IN PLANTS
    Publication number: 20130042367
    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: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: Ceres, Inc.
  • NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES AND CORRESPONDING POLYPEPTIDES CONFERRING MODULATED PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
    Publication number: 20130031668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventor: Ceres, Inc.
  • High biomass sorghum hybrid CB 7520
    Patent number: 8362330
    Abstract: A hybrid sorghum, designated CB 7520 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of hybrid sorghum CB 7520, to the plants of hybrid sorghum CB 7520 and to methods for producing a sorghum plant by crossing the hybrid CB 7520 with itself or another sorghum plant that is not a plant of sorghum hybrid CB 7520. The invention further relates to hybrid sorghum seeds and plants. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other hybrid sorghum derived from sorghum hybrid CB 7520.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventor: Clinton Jay Johnson
  • Modulating lignin in plants
    Patent number: 8362322
    Abstract: Materials and methods for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) lignin content in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding lignin-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to generate transgenic plants having a modulated lignin content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nestor Apuya, Steven Craig Bobzin, Jack Okamuro, Ke Zhang
  • Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated plant characteristics
    Patent number: 8362325
    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, sterility or seedling lethality 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 such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxim Troukhan, Peter Mascia
  • Plant nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides
    Patent number: 8344211
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Maxim Troukhan
  • Increasing low light tolerance in plants
    Patent number: 8344210
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) low light tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding polypeptides that confer plants with tolerance to low light are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased low light tolerance and plant products produced from plants having increased low light tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Shing Kwok, Sam Harris, James Burns
  • MODULATING PLANT OIL LEVELS
    Publication number: 20120331583
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) oil levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding oil-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased oil levels and plant products produced from plants having increased oil levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: CERES, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Craig Bobzin, Daniel Mumenthaler, Boris Jankowski, Joel Cruz Rarang
  • Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated growth rate and biomass in plants grown in saline conditions
    Patent number: 8324454
    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: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Fasong Zhou, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Julissa Sosa
  • Nucleotide sequences and corresponding polypeptides conferring modulated plant characteristics
    Patent number: 8299318
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules and their corresponding encoded polypeptides. The present invention further relates to the uses of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides. For example, the nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides could be used in making enzymes or used to make plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having such modulated growth or phenotype characteristics that are altered with respect to wild type plants grown under similar conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Vyacheslav Brover, Timothy J. Swaller, Kenneth A Feldmann, Maxim Troukhan
  • Cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenases
    Patent number: 8298794
    Abstract: The invention relates to nucleic acid and amino acid sequences for sorghum CAD alleles and truncated CAD polypeptides. Sorghum plants having such truncations or combinations thereof, methods of genotyping sorghum plants for CAD truncations, and methods for breeding sorghum plants having truncated CAD sequences or combinations thereof are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy Swaller
  • Nucleic acid sequences encoding AN1-like zinc finger proteins
    Patent number: 8299231
    Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides encoded thereby are described, together with the use of those products for making transgenic plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Nickolai Alexandrov, Vyacheslav Brover, Kenneth Feldmann
  • Modulating plant carbon levels
    Patent number: 8299320
    Abstract: Methods and materials for modulating (e.g., increasing or decreasing) carbon levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding carbon-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased carbon levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Ceres, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Schneeberger, Emilio Margolles-Clark, Joon-Hyun Park, Boris Jankowski, Steven Craig Bobzin
  • Promoter, promoter control elements, and combinations, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8278434
    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: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    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