Patents Assigned to Dow AgroScience LLC
  • Publication number: 20210015098
    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 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: TIMOTHY P. MARTIN, RONALD ROSS, Jr., RONALD J. HEEMSTRA, JOSEPH D. ECKELBARGER, TONY K. TRULLINGER, RICKY HUNTER, MARTIN J. WALSH
  • Patent number: 10894783
    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, 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 a molecule having the following formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Yu Zhang, Tony K. Trullinger, Carla J. R. Klittich, Ricky Hunter
  • Patent number: 10889830
    Abstract: The subject invention concerns new classes of insecticidally-active proteins and the polynucleotide sequences which encode these proteins. More specifically, insecticidal proteins of approximately 12-24 kDa and of approximately 12-14 kDa are used for controlling corn rootworms. The subject invention includes methods and transgenic plants for controlling Western Corn Rootworm and other coleopteran insects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Narva, Huarong Li, Sek Yee Tan, Tao Xu, Timothy D. Hey, Vimbai Chikwana, Sarah E. Worden
  • Patent number: 10883148
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods for identifying sunflower plants that having increased Orobanche resistance. The methods use molecular markers to identify and to select plants with increased Orobanche resistance. Maize plants generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Wenxiang Gao, Van L. Ripley, Chandra-Shekar A. Channabasavaradhya, David H. Meyer, Leonardo Velasco, Robert M. Benson, Begona Perez Vich, Angela L. Erickson, Jose Maria Fernandez Martinez, Ruihua Ren, Milan Avery
  • Publication number: 20200404949
    Abstract: A method of enhancing milk production efficiency in dairy cattle that comprises feeding the dairy cattle with a feed ration comprising a corn silage made from a brown midrib/floury-2 corn hybrid. Upon being fed to dairy cows, a feed ration comprising brown midrib/floury-2 corn silage provides at least about 4% higher in the amount of milk produced per unit of the feed intake, compared to a feed ration comprising non-brown midrib corn silage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: William P. Weiss, Karl E. Nestor, JR.
  • Patent number: 10876131
    Abstract: DIG-303 insecticidal toxins, polynucleotides encoding such toxins, use of such toxins to control pests, and transgenic plants that produce such toxins are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Meghan L. F. Frey, Justin M. Lira, Xiaoping Xu, Ignacio Mario Larrinua, Kenneth Narva, Timothy D Hey
  • Publication number: 20200399222
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to picolinamides of Formula I and their use as fungicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Brian A. Loy, Nicolaas Vermeulen, Brannon Sam, Kevin G. Meyer, Chenglin Yao, Nicholas R. Babij, Jeff Petkus
  • Publication number: 20200392524
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a GmPSID2 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter or a 5? UTR from a GmPSID2 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Other embodiments relate to a 3? UTR or a terminator from a GmPSID2 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Lyudmila Sidorenko, Cory Larsen, Geny Anthony, Shreedharan Sriram, Holly Jean Butler
  • Publication number: 20200385752
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to a novel gene referred to herein as DSM-2. This gene was identified in Streptomyces coelicolor A3. The DSM-2 protein is distantly related to PAT and BAR. The subject invention also provides plant-optimized genes encoding DSM-2 proteins. DSM-2 can be used as a transgenic trait to impart tolerance in plants and plant cells to the herbicides glufosinate and bialaphos. One preferred use of the subject genes areas selectable markers. The use of this gene as a selectable marker in a bacterial system can increase efficiency for plant transformations. Use of DSM-2 as the sole selection marker eliminates the need for an additional medicinal antibiotic marker (such as ampicillin resistance) during cloning. Various other uses are also possible according to the subject invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Justin M Lira, Terry Wright, Andrew E. Robinson, Sean Russell, Donald J Merlo, Steven Webb, Nicole L Arnold, Kelley E Smith
  • Publication number: 20200385751
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to a novel gene referred to herein as DSM-2. This gene was identified in Streptomyces coelicolor A3. The DSM-2 protein is distantly related to PAT and BAR. The subject invention also provides plant-optimized genes encoding DSM-2 proteins. DSM-2 can be used as a transgenic trait to impart tolerance in plants and plant cells to the herbicides glufosinate and bialaphos. One preferred use of the subject genes are as selectable markers. The use of this gene as a selectable marker in a bacterial system can increase efficiency for plant transformations. Use of DSM-2 as the sole selection marker eliminates the need for an additional medicinal antibiotic marker (such as ampicillin resistance) during cloning. Various other uses are also possible according to the subject invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Justin M Lira, Terry Wright, Andrew E. Robinson, Sean Russell, Donald J Merlo, Steven Webb, Nicole L Arnold, Kelley E Smith
  • Publication number: 20200377899
    Abstract: The current disclosure relates to methods and compositions for improving plant varieties through plant breeding and plant genetics. For instance, the disclosure concerns increasing the recombination frequency of a heterozygous trait genetically linked to a second trait within plants. Further, the disclosure concerns breaking the genetic linkage between a first allele and a second allele.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Kumar, Ryan M. Lee, Stephen Novak, Andrew F. Worden
  • Patent number: 10844389
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for gene disruption, gene editing or gene stacking within a FAD2 loci by cleaving, in a site directed manner, a location in a FAD2 gene in a soybean cell, to generate a break in the FAD2 gene and then optionally integrating into the break a nucleic acid molecule of interest is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: Dow AgroSciences LLC, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Michael Ainley, Steven R. Webb, Jayakumar P. Samuel, Dmitry Y. Guschin, Jeffrey C. Miller, Lei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10836804
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for increasing the expression of a polynucleotide of interest. Some embodiments concern novel transactivation polypeptides and variants thereof that have been identified in plants, and methods of using the same. Particular embodiments concern the use of at least one DNA-binding polypeptide in a fusion protein to target at least one transactivation polypeptide or variant thereof to a specific binding site on a nucleic acid comprising the polynucleotide of interest, such that its expression may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Agrosciences LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Petolino, Jianquan Li, Steven L. Evans, Ryan C. Blue
  • Publication number: 20200347395
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a GmCAB2 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter or a 5? UTR from a GmCAB2 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Other embodiments relate to a 3? UTR or a terminator from a GmCAB2 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicants: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Lyudmila Sidorenko, Cory M. Larsen, Geny Anthony, Shreedharan Sriram, Holly Jean Butler, Lynne E. Sims, Scott H. Diehn, Gilda M. Rauscher, Kevin G. Ripp, Knut Meyer
  • Patent number: 10798893
    Abstract: Methods to generate doubled haploid plants and plant components using low mammalian toxicity chromosome doubling agents are disclosed. Chromosome doubling agents provide low mortality rates and higher chromosome doubling rate in plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Yunxing Cory Cui, Paul Schmitzer, David H. Young
  • Publication number: 20200318127
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for promoting transcription of a nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell, employing a promoter from a GmTEFs1 gene. Some embodiments relate to a promoter or a 5? UTR from a GmTEFs1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Other embodiments relate to a 3? UTR or a terminator from a GmTEFs1 gene that functions in plants to promote transcription of operably linked nucleotide sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Lyudmila Sidorenko, Cory M. Larsen, Geny Anthony, Shreedharan Sriram, Holly Jean Butler
  • Publication number: 20200318132
    Abstract: IRDIG35563 vegetative insecticidal toxins, polynucleotides encoding such toxins, use of such toxins to control pests, and transgenic plants that produce such toxins are disclosed. The invention includes IRDIG35563 variants, fragments and analogs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: MARC D ZACK, MEGAN SOPKO, JAMES M HASLER
  • Patent number: 10791692
    Abstract: A method for identifying a quantitative trait locus associated with desirable nutritional traits in canola includes: analyzing a population of canola plants or germplasm for desirable nutritional traits; determining the genotype of the canola plants or germplasm using at least one marker selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:1 through SEQ ID NO:111; mapping the canola plants or germplasm for the presence of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with the markers; and associating the QTL with the desirable nutritional trait. An isolated and/or recombinant nucleic acid includes a sequence associated with a quantitative trait locus (QTL), wherein the QTL is associated with a desirable nutritional trait in a canola plant or germplasm and wherein the QTL is further associated with at least one marker selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO:1 through SEQ ID NO:111.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Shunxue Tang, Van L. Ripley, Thomas G. Patterson, Michelle Wiggins, Joshua A. Flook, Cherie Ochsenfeld, Daniel Garcia, Syed Masood Rizvi, Muhammad Tahir, Ryan Preuss, Donna Carolynn Knievel, Steve Rounsley, Zoe Christina Ehlert
  • Patent number: 10793918
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns methods and compositions for identifying canola plants that have a blackleg resistant phenotype. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct blackleg resistant plants and germplasm, or to identify and counter-select plants that are susceptible or have low resistance to blackleg disease. Some embodiments concern molecular markers to identify, select, and/or construct blackleg resistant plants that carry the rlm4 gene. This disclosure also concerns canola plants comprising a blackleg resistant phenotype that are generated by methods utilizing at least one marker described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Shunxue Tang, Jianwei Zhao
  • Patent number: 10793612
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns methods for the design of synthetic nucleic acid sequences that encode polypeptide amino acid repeat regions. This disclosure also concerns the use of such sequences to express a polypeptide of interest that comprises amino acid repeat regions, and organisms comprising such sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Donald J. Merlo, Ignacio Larrinua, Scott Bevan