Patents Assigned to Dow AgroScience LLC
  • Patent number: 10093940
    Abstract: As disclosed herein, optimal native genomic loci from maize plants have been identified that represent best sites for targeted insertion of exogenous sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi Sastry-Dent, Zehui Cao, Shreedharan Sriram, Steven R. Webb, Debra L. Camper
  • Publication number: 20180279612
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to the field of molecules having pesticidal utility against pests in Phyla Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Nematoda, processes to produce such molecules, intermediates used in such processes, pesticidal compositions containing such molecules, and processes of using such pesticidal compositions against such pests. These pesticidal compositions may be used, for example, as acaricides, insecticides, miticides, molluscicides, and nematicides. This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Paul R. LePlae, JR., Thomas Barton, Xin Gao, James E. Hunter, William C. Lo, Joshodeep Boruwa, Raghuram Tangirala, Gerald B. Watson, John Herbert, David A. Demeter, Hemant Joshi
  • Patent number: 10087492
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system and methods for detecting and identifying plant events that contain donor sequences inserted precisely into a targeted genomic loci, and plants and plant cells comprising such targeted genomic loci. The method comprises the steps of amplifying a genomic DNA with a first round of PCR to produce an amplicon from donor sequences inserted in the reverse orientation, wherein the production of the amplicon indicates the presence of the site specific integration event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi Sastry-Dent, W. Michael Ainley, Jayakumar P. Samuel, Zehui Cao, Liu Shen, Cristie M. Dewes
  • Patent number: 10085451
    Abstract: A synergistic mixture of penoxsulam and bentazon controls weeds in crops, especially rice and other cereal and grain crops, pastures, rangelands, IVM and turf. In addition to providing improved post-emergence herbicidal weed control, the mixture safens damage to rice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Richard K. Mann, Yi-hsiou Huang
  • Patent number: 10087164
    Abstract: Improved methods of synthesizing 6-aryl-4-aminopicolinates, such as arylalkyl and alkyl 4-amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)pyridine-2-carboxylates and arylalkyl and alkyl 4-amino-3-chloro-5-fluoro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)pyridine-2-carboxylates, are described herein. The improved methods include a direct Suzuki coupling step, which eliminates the protection/de-protection steps in the current chemical process, and therefore eliminates or reduces various raw materials, equipment and cycle time as well as modification of other process conditions including use of crude AP, use of ABA-diMe, and varying pH, catalyst concentration, solvent composition, and/or workup procedures. This invention was expanded to include synthesis of 2-aryl-6-aminopyrimidine-4-carboxylates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Jason S. Fisk, Xiaoyong Li, Mark Muehlfeld, Robert S. Bauman, Jossian Oppenheimer, Siyu Tu, Mark A. Nitz, Reetam Chakrabarti, Shawn D. Feist, James W. Ringer, Ronald B. Leng
  • Patent number: 10085133
    Abstract: A pest control device system includes a plurality of pest control devices and a data collector. The system may further include the data collector in the form of a gateway that is connected to a data management server via a computer network along with other gateways in corresponding pest control device groups. Each pest control device includes a pest sensor and a wireless communication circuit to transmit information from the corresponding sensor. The devices also configure to define a local wireless communication network that can relay the information from one to the next and ultimately to the data collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Paul W. Borth, Peter N. Scherer, Mike P. Tolley, Christopher J. Voglewede, Brian M. Schneider, Nailah Orr, Richard V. Baxter, Douglas K. Brune
  • Publication number: 20180265425
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved nitrification inhibitor composition and its use in agricultural applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Mei Li, Martin C. Logan, Greg Powels, Alex Williams, Stephen L. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20180265871
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of insect pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in insect pests, including hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of insect pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Narva, Elane Fishilevich, Meghan L. Frey, Wendy Lo, Premchand Grandra
  • Patent number: 10077449
    Abstract: A universal donor polynucleotide is described that can be inserted at targeted locations in plant genomes to facilitate rapid and high throughput integration of a donor molecule within a specific genomic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Lakshmi Sastry-Dent, Steven L. Evans, Ryan C. Blue, Zehui Cao
  • Patent number: 10077450
    Abstract: Identification of new enhancer sequence has significant utility in the plant functional genomics. The sugarcane bacilliform badnavirus (SCBV) transcriptional enhancer has been identified. This enhancer can be used to increase the rate of transcription from gene promoters and in activation tagging experiments. A ten-fold increase in transcription was observed when a 4× array of the SCBV enhancer was placed upstream of a truncated form of the maize alcohol dehydrogenase minimal promoter. Methods of using the SCBV transcriptional enhancer are described, as are chimeric transcription regulatory regions, constructs, cells, tissues, and organisms that comprise one or more copies of the enhancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Patricia Ann Owens Merlo, Cory Larsen, Scott A. Bevan, John P. Davies, Vaka S. Reddy, William Michael Ainley, Mark Allen Thompson
  • Publication number: 20180255776
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions and methods using a combination of (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, (b) a triazolopyrimidine sulfonamide herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and (c) glyphosate or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof provide control of undesirable vegetation in soybean, cotton, sunflower, winter/spring oilseed rape, winter/spring canola, vegetables, ornamentals, rice, wheat, teff, triticale, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn/maize, sunflower, row crops, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, fallow bed, sugarcane, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, forestry, industrial vegetation management (NM) and rights-of-way; for the burndown and control of weeds in fallow fields and fallow beds between the planting of crops, such as soybean, corn, cotton sunflower, cereals, rice, winter/spring oil-seed rape, winter/spring canola, corn/maize and sorghum; and for the control of weeds just prior to or after pla
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. VOGLEWEDE, Richard K. MANN, Rodrigo NEVES, Marcos BAEZ BUCHANAN, Rafael FRENE, Kent DAVIES, Luiz Henrique ZOBIOLE
  • Publication number: 20180251779
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of insect pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in insect pests, including coleopteran and/or hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of insect pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth E. NARVA, Huarong LI, Chaoxian GENG, Navin ELANGO, Matthew J. HENRY, Murugesan RANGASAMY, Aaron T. WOOSLEY, Kanika ARORA, Premchand GANDRA, Sarah E. WORDEN, Elane FISHILEVICH
  • Publication number: 20180242581
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions and methods using a combination of (a) a compound of formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, (b) a triazolopyrimidine sulfonamide herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and (c) a cell membrane disruptor herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof provide control of undesirable vegetation in soybean, cotton, sunflower, winter/spring oilseed rape, winter/spring canola, vegetables, ornamentals, rice, wheat, teff, triticale, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, winter/spring oilseed rape, winter/spring canola, corn/maize, sunflower, row crops, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, fallow beds, sugarcane, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, forestry, industrial vegetation management (IVM) and rights-of-way; for the burndown and control of weeds in fallow fields and fallow beds between the planting of crops, such as soybean, corn, cotton sunflower, cereals, rice, winter/spring oilseed rape, winter/spring canola, corn
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Dow AgroScience LLC
    Inventors: Christopher J. Voglewede, Richard K. Mann, Rodrigo Neves, Marcos Baez Buchanan, Rafael Frene, Kent Davies, Luiz Henrique Zobiole
  • Patent number: 10053706
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of hemipteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of hemipteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Blair D. Siegfried, Kenneth E. Narva, Kanika Arora, Sarah E. Worden, Chitvan Khajuria, Elane Fishilevich, Nicholas P. Storer, Meghan Frey, Ronda L. Hamm, Ana Velez
  • Patent number: 10051878
    Abstract: The subject invention relates in part to novel steps in canola and other oil seed processing, including milling to achieve a significant particle size reduction, extraction of higher levels of protein from the starting material, the use of presscake as a starting material, and the production of a precipitated protein concentrates containing a nutritionally significant amount of oil. The subject invention also provides optimal pH ranges for extraction and recovery steps in these novel processes. The subject processes can be applied to, and offer similar advantages to, other oilseeds and vegetable matter, such as sunflower seeds and flax seeds. The subject invention also includes novel feed compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Richard K. Helling, Thomas G. Patterson, Stewart J. Campbell
  • Patent number: 10047368
    Abstract: Provided are vector constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using gene regulatory elements, including the promoters, 5?-UTRs, introns, and/or 3?-UTRs, isolated from Zea mays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Manju Gupta, Navin Elango, Karthik N. Muthuraman, Jeffrey Beringer, Sara Bennett, Huixia Wu
  • Patent number: 10047360
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of hemipteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of hemipteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Blair D. Siegfried, Kenneth E. Narva, Kanika Arora, Sarah E. Worden, Chitvan Khajuria, Elane Fishilevich, Nicholas P. Storer, Meghan Frey, Ronda L. Hamm, Ana Velez
  • Patent number: 10047367
    Abstract: Provided are vector constructs and methods for expressing a transgene in plant cells and/or plant tissues using gene regulatory elements, including the promoters, 5?-UTRs, and/or 3?-UTRs, isolated from Zea mays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Manju Gupta, Navin Elango, Karthik N. Muthuraman, Jeffrey Beringer, Sara Bennett, Huixia Wu, Shavell Gorman, Andrew Worden
  • Patent number: 10047374
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of hemipteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in hemipteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of hemipteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Blair D. Siegfried, Kenneth E. Narva, Kanika Arora, Sarah E. Worden, Chitvan Khajuria, Elane Fishilevich, Nicholas P. Storer, Meghan Frey, Ronda L. Hamm, Ana Velez
  • Patent number: 10045503
    Abstract: Provided are sunflowers, parts thereof, cultures of, and seeds that are capable of producing sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat as well as associated methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: James Todd Gerdes, Charles James Kahl, Angela Lee Erickson, Robert Martin Benson