Patents Assigned to Grains Research and Development Corporation
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Patent number: 9708623Abstract: The present invention relates generally to polysaccharide synthases. More particularly, the present invention relates to (1,3;1,4)-?-D-glucan synthases. The present invention provides, among other things, methods for influencing the level of (1,3;1,4)-?-D-glucan produced by a cell and nucleic acid and amino acid sequences which encode (1,3;1,4)-?-D-glucan synthases.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignees: Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd, Grains Research & Development Corporation, The University of MelbourneInventors: Rachel Anita Burton, Geoffrey Bruce Fincher, Antony Bacic
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Patent number: 9556102Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED PTY LTDInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Patent number: 9550718Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED PTY LTDInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20160177220Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh
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Publication number: 20160130539Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-base beverage suitable for consumption by a subject with Coeliac's disease. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage with low levels of hordeins. Also provided are barley plants which produce grain that can be used in the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicants: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, MELBOURNE HEALTHInventors: Gregory John Tanner, Crispin Alexander Howitt
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Publication number: 20160128345Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage suitable for consumption by a subject with Coeliac's disease. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage with very low levels of hordeins. Also provided are barley plants which produce grain that can be used in the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Or ganisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: Gregory John Tanner, Crispin Alexander Howitt, Michelle Lisa Colgrave, Malcolm James Blundell
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Publication number: 20150373913Abstract: A weed seed devitalization arrangement for use with a. combine harvester, attached to the combine harvester, towed behind, or standalone. The weed seed devitalization arrangement receives weed seeds entrained in a. portion of the air and material previously discharged from a combine harvester or other crop/lawn cutung apparatus. The weed seed devitalization arrangement includes a roton’stator arrangement including but not necessarily excluding other elements, one or more stationary substantially circular array of weed seed impact members, the members being arranged so as to impact weed seeds being provided into the substantially circular array; and one or more rotatable substantially circular array of weed seed impact members, the rotatable array movable with respect to a stationary substantially circular array of weed seed impact members, the impact members of the rotatable substantially circular array arranged to impact weed seeds being directed through the rotatable substantially circular array.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicants: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA, GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Nicholas Kane BERRY, Chris SAUNDERS
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Publication number: 20150374654Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicants: GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED PTY LTD, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: James Robertson PETRIE, Surinder Pal SINGH
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Publication number: 20150274562Abstract: A wastewater refinery comprising one or more electrodialytic cells with mono-, di-, or multi-valent selective membranes interspersed with one or more concentrate compartments to selectively recovery ions from wastewater. The wastewater refinery may harvest ions by utilising techniques including ion selective resins and pervaporation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicants: Grains Research & Development Corporation, The University of QueenslandInventors: Damien Batstone, Chirag Mehta
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Patent number: 9139839Abstract: The present invention relates generally to transcriptional control sequences. Generally, the present invention relates to transcriptional control sequences that specifically or preferentially direct expression of a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant egg cell. The present invention is predicated, in part, on the identification of transcriptional control sequences derived from EC1 genes which, in preferred embodiments, direct preferential expression in an egg cell of at least one plant taxon.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignees: Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd, Grains Research & Development CorporationInventors: Stefanie Sprunck, Birgit Bellman, Thomas Dresselhaus
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Patent number: 9133427Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-base beverage suitable for consumption by a subject with Coeliac's disease. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage with low levels of hordeins. Also provided are barley plants which produce grain that can be used in the methods of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Melbourne HealthInventors: Gregory John Tanner, Crispin Alexander Howitt
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Patent number: 9115370Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding adult plant pathogen resistance proteins. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of the plants to pathogens.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignees: Grains Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of ZurichInventors: Evans Lagudah, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Beat Keller, Simon Krattinger
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Publication number: 20150203788Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20150166928Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosahexaenoic acid, and/or docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Nuseed Pty Ltd, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson PETRIE, Surinder Pal SINGH
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Publication number: 20150045567Abstract: The present invention relates to enzymes which possess desaturase, conjugase, epoxidase and/or hydroxylase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing fatty acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: Katherine Damcevski, Karen Glover, Allan Green, Victoria S. Haritos, Irene Horne, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig C. Wood, Xue-Rong Zhou
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Publication number: 20150045569Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Patent number: 8946460Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Pty LtdInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20150018571Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of recombinant fatty acid synthesis, particularly in transgenic plants. The application describes genes involved in fatty acid synthesis and provides methods and vectors for the manipulation of fatty acid composition of plant oils. In particular, the invention provides constructs for achieving the integration of multiple heterologous genes involved in fatty acid synthesis into the plant genome, such that the resulting plants produce altered levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Also described are methods for enhancing the expression of fatty acid biosynthesis enzymes by co-expressing a silencing suppressor within the plant storage organ.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicants: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Anne Maree Mackenzie, Qing Liu, Pushkar Shrestha, Peter David Nichols, Susan Irene Ellis Blackburn, Maged Peter Mansour, Stanley Suresh Robert, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Xue-Rong Zhou, Surinder Pal Singh, Craig Christopher Wood
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Publication number: 20140380528Abstract: The present invention relates to genetically modified cells that are capable of optimal transgene expression by co-expressing a silencing suppressor whilst at the same time are also capable of silencing a gene, such as a naturally occurring gene of the cell. The present invention also relates to methods of producing the modified cells, as well as relates to processes for obtaining a genetically modified cell with a desired property.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: Craig Christopher Wood, Fatima Naim, Surinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 8829272Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods and transcriptional control sequences suitable for effecting expression of a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods and transcriptional control sequences suitable for directing specific or preferential expression of a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant seed. Of particular interest as a transcriptional control sequence in this invention is the promoter PR602 (SEQ ID NO: 1) found in the 5?-untranslated region of the rice END1-like gene and isolated from a rice panicle library.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd, Grains Research & Development CorporationInventors: Sergiy Lopato, Ming Li