Abstract: Polynucleotide sequences encoding diacylglycerol acyltransferase genes and the use of these acyltransferases for increased seed storage lipid production and altered fatty acid profiles in oilseed plants are disclosed. Transgenic soybean seed having increased total fatty acid content of at least 20% and altered fatty acids when compared to the total fatty acid content of non-transgenic, null segregant soybean seed are described. Methods for increasing the total fatty acid content of a soybean seed by at least 20% include steps of transformation and selection.
Abstract: Methods and compositions for identifying novel genes useful for modulating desired agronomic traits in plants are presented herein. The present disclosure relates to methods for identifying line-specific and cluster-specific genes from plants that show perturbation of expression in response to perturbation of expression of a primary gene, and the perturbation of expression of the line-specific or cluster-specific gene confers alterations in agronomic characteristics upon the plant.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 16, 2016
Publication date:
December 20, 2018
Applicants:
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
SONAL BAKIWALA, DEBASIS DAN, KRUPA DESHMUKH, MARY J. FRANK, NANDINI KRISHNAMURTHY, BINDU ANDREUZZA, ROBERT WAYNE WILLIAMS, SANGEETA AGARWAL
Abstract: Head smut is one of the most devastating diseases in maize, causing severe yield loss worldwide. The present invention describes the fine-mapping of a major QTL conferring resistance to head smut. Markers useful for breeding, and methods for conferring head smut resistance are described. Nucleic acid sequence from the genetic locus conferring head smut resistance is disclosed. Genes encoding proteins conferring head smut resistance are disclosed.
Abstract: A nuclear maize gene is mutated to result in dominant male sterility. Two mutants are provided which impact signal peptide processing. Restoration constructs and methods are provided for use of the dominant male-sterile mutants in producing hybrid seed for male-sterile hybrid plants. Other signal-peptide modifications are provided. Orthologs of the wild type or mutated gene in various species are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 12, 2013
Date of Patent:
December 18, 2018
Assignees:
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL. INC., E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
Marc Albertsen, Tim Fox, April Leonard, Bailin Li, Brian Loveland, Mary Trimnell
Abstract: Disclosed is a method for protecting an animal from a parasitic invertebrate pest comprising treating an animal orally or by injection with a pesticidally effective amount of a compound of Formula 1, wherein R1 is halogen, C1-C3 haloalkyl or C1-C3 haloalkoxy; R2 is H, halogen, C1-C3 alkyl, C1-C3 haloalkyl or cyano; R3 is H, halogen, C1-C3 haloalkyl or C1-C3 haloalkoxy; R4 is halogen, C1-C3 alkyl, C1-C3 haloalkyl or C1-C3 haloalkoxy; R5 is H, CH3, C2-C4 alkylcarbonyl, C2-C4 haloalkylcarbonyl, C2-C5 alkoxycarbonyl or CH2O(C1-C3 alkyl); R6 is C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 haloalkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl or C3-C6 halocycloalkyl, each group substituted with one R7; or R6 is (CH2)mQ; and Q, R7, R8a and R8b are as defined in the disclosure.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 14, 2018
Publication date:
December 13, 2018
Applicant:
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
George Philip Lahm, Jeffrey Keith Long, Ming Xu
Abstract: Methods and systems to improve application of seed applied components to seeds are disclosed. Environmentally controlled enclosures to test, evaluate and develop seed treatment solutions for certain geographical locations are provided. Controlled environments during seed treatment application process in a production location improves the overall seed treatment efficiency and uniformity.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 23, 2016
Publication date:
December 13, 2018
Applicants:
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
MICHAEL DAMMEN, JEFFREY LEE DANIELS, WILLIAM L GEIGLE, SEAN FULLER MCCAFFERY, RANDY SEABA
Abstract: The invention is directed to a polyimide-based polymer thick film paste composition for forming a polyimide-based polymer thick film resistor, a process for forming the resistor and an electrical device containing a resistor formed using the paste composition The paste composition comprise a functional component, a polyimide, and an organic solvent and can be cured by heating.
Abstract: Compositions and methods comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides having meganuclease activity are provided. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, yeast, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the meganuclease sequences. Various methods of employing the meganuclease sequences are provided. Such methods include, for example, methods for producing a meganuclease with increased activity at a wide range of temperatures, methods for producing a yeast, plant, plant cell, explant or seed comprising a meganuclease with increased activity.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 10, 2018
Date of Patent:
December 11, 2018
Assignees:
E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED IINTERNATIONAL, INC.
Inventors:
Ericka Bermudez, Andrew Mark Cigan, James J English, Saverio Carl Falco, Huirong Gao, Lu Liu, Zhan-Bin Liu, Azalea S Ong, Sergei Svitashev, Joshua K Young
Abstract: A process to treat a heavy hydrocarbon feed in a liquid-full hydroprocessing reactor is disclosed. The heavy feed has a high asphaltenes content, high viscosity, high density and high end boiling point. Hydrogen is fed in an equivalent amount of at least 160 liters of hydrogen, per liter of feed, l/l (900 scf/bbl). The feed is contacted with hydrogen and a diluent, which comprises, consists essentially of, or consists of recycle product stream. The hydroprocessed product has increased value for refineries, such as a feed for an fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit.
Abstract: A knit fabric suitable as a reinforcement for tubular elastomeric articles or a fiber-reinforced composite structure wherein (i) the fabric comprises a plurality of first filamentary yarns (first yarns) having a tenacity of 2.5-56 g/dtex and a linear density of 222-10000 dtex that form the loops of the knit of the fabric, (ii) the fabric further comprises at least one second filamentary yarn having a tenacity of 2.5-56 g/dtex and a linear density of 222-10000 dtex that, within a course of the fabric, passes in a helical direction in front of all first yarns in that course and is intertwined with at least some of the first yarns in an adjacent course, and (iii) within a course of the fabric, the length of second reinforcement yarn to the length of first yarn is in the ratio of from 1.0:1.72 to 1.0:6.0.
Abstract: Enzymatic reactions are disclosed herein comprising water, glucose-1-phosphate, cellodextrin, and at least one cellodextrin phosphorylase enzyme comprising an amino acid sequence that is at least 90% identical to SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:6. These reactions produce a low molecular weight, insoluble cellulose with enhanced features.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 15, 2015
Date of Patent:
November 20, 2018
Assignee:
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
Natnael Behabtu, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Zheyong Yu, Zhenghong Zhang
Abstract: The present invention provides a thick-film paste composition for printing the front side of a solar cell device having one or more insulating layers. The thick-film paste comprises an electrically conductive metal and a dual-frit oxide composition dispersed in an organic medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 17, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 20, 2018
Assignee:
E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
Kenneth Warren Hang, Kathryn Lynn Goetschius, Yusuke Tachibana, Paul Douglas Vernooy
Abstract: There is provided an electroactive system for forming an electroactive layer. The system includes: (a) a first electroactive material; (b) a facilitation additive; and (c) a first liquid medium. The facilitation additive is present during baking in an amount sufficient to enable the electroactive layer made therefrom to effectively resist mixing with a second liquid medium applied thereover after the electroactive system is deposited and baked at a temperature less than 350° C. for a predetermined time.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 11, 2014
Date of Patent:
November 20, 2018
Assignee:
E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
Adam Fennimore, Denis Yurievich Kondakov, Nora Sabina Radu
Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 8, 2016
Publication date:
November 15, 2018
Applicants:
PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC., E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
Inventors:
LU LIU, AMY LUM, JARRED KENNETH ORAL, CLAUDIA PEREZ-ORTEGA, BARBARA ANN MARIE ROSEN, UTE SCHELLENBERGER, JUN-ZHI WEI, WEIPING XIE, XIAOHONG ZHONG, GENHAI ZHU
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for quantifying levels of expression and/or quantifying copy number of a heterologous polynucleotide in a transgenic plant using quantitative or real-time polymerase chain reaction (QPCR or real-time PCR), wherein the real-time PCR is performed using a primer set specific to a heterologous terminator sequence operably linked to the heterologous polynucleotide.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 23, 2018
Publication date:
November 15, 2018
Applicants:
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Inventors:
IGOR CUNHA DE OLIVEIRA, DENNIS O'NEILL, ANDREW SLATTERY, JIJUN ZOU
Abstract: Provided herein are glass laminates, preferably safety glass laminates, that comprise a polymeric interlayer sheet formed of an acid copolymer composition. The acid copolymer composition comprises an ethylene acid copolymer which, in turn, comprises copolymerized units of ethylene, about 5 to about 90 wt % of copolymerized units of a first ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 10 carbon atoms; and optionally about 2 to about 40 wt % of copolymerized units of a derivative of a second ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 10 carbon atoms. Optionally, a portion of the carboxylic acid groups of the copolymerized units of the ethylene acid copolymer are neutralized to form carboxylate salts. The acid copolymer composition also includes a hydroxyl-containing crosslinking agent and may also include an adjuvant. The glass laminates have superior resistance to creeping due to the properties of the acid copolymer composition, which may optionally be cross-linked.
Abstract: This invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically transcription terminator sequences. Plant transcription terminator sequences are described herein. Methods for identifying novel plant transcription terminator sequences that can terminate transcription in one orientation or in a bidirectional manner and methods of using these terminator sequences to generate transgenic plants are described herein.