Abstract: A rotary knife fixture for cutting vegetable products into spiral shapes. The knife fixture includes a blade holder driven rotatably within a hydraulic product flow path. The blade holder includes at least one cutting blade, wherein the blade is twisted with a sharpened leading edge set at a desired pitch angle. By controlling the pitch angle of the blade in relation to the blade rotational speed and velocity at which the potato travels along the hydraulic flow path, the resultant spiral cut shape is selected. By using multiple cutting blades at known axially spaced positions and selecting the angular position of each cutting blade in succession, the number of spiral shapes cut from each potato is selected. The blades can have a nontextured straight-cut edge, or a textured crinkle-cut edge, or a combination.

Abstract: A potato transformation vector, pSIM1678 is disclosed. The invention relates to the potato transformation vector which contains an expression cassette for the potato late blight resistance gene, Rpi-vntl, and a silencing cassette for the plant vacuolar invertase gene, VInv.

Abstract: A potato transformation vector, pSIM1278 is disclosed. The invention relates to the potato transformation vector for silencing endogenous aspargine synthetase-1, polyphenol oxidase-5, phosphorylase-L, and dikinase R1 genes.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and constructs for producing heterologous peptides and proteins in plants in a safe and controlled manner. One aspect of the present invention provides a method of producing heterologous protein in a transformed potato plant using an expression cassette comprising a gene coding for a protein or peptide of interest and a marker gene, a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing patatin expression, along with a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing CD4B expression, and/or a nucleotide sequence capable of overexpressing P19. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of producing a heterologous protein in a transformed potato plant using an expression cassette comprising a gene coding for a protein or peptide of interest, a marker gene, a transit peptide sequence, and a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase expression.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods for stably integrating a desired polynucleotide into a plant genome, comprising transforming plant material with a first vector comprising nucleotide sequences encoding TAL proteins designed to recognize a target sequence; transforming the plant material with a second vector comprising (i) a marker gene that is not operably linked to a promoter (“promoter-free marker cassette”) and which comprises a sequence homologous to the target sequence; and (ii) a desired polynucleotide; and identifying transformed plant material in which the desired polynucleotide is stably integrated.

Abstract: The present invention relates to unique strategies and constructs for producing a nucleic acid product that downregulates or prevents expression of a desired target polynucleotide. The present invention contemplates the suppression of gene expression in plants by constructs that trigger transcriptional or post-transcriptional gene silencing. The methods of gene silencing may suppress gene expression through a variety of mechanisms.

Abstract: A potato cultivar designated V11 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar V11, to the seeds of potato cultivar V11, to the plants of potato V11, to the plant parts of potato cultivar V11, to food products produced from potato cultivar V11, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar V11 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety V11, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar V11 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.

Abstract: Turfgrass varieties with desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently are provided. Also provided is a method of producing a turfgrass plant having desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently. The turfgrass plants of the present invention display green leaf chlorophyll concentrations above 1.8 mg/g and a field insitu CM-1000 chlorophyll meter reading of 341.7 or higher, as well as high general turfgrass quality ratings. The turfgrass plants of the present invention retain a dark green color even when scalped back by infrequent mowing.

Abstract: A permeameter probe, configured for performing hydraulic conductivity measurements of soil, includes a standpipe having a top section, a transitional section, and a bottom section. The transitional section provides a gradual change in diameter between the larger diameter bottom section and the smaller diameter top section. The standpipe also includes a lower lip for forming a pressure fitting between the standpipe and a casing placed in a borehole.

Abstract: A cutting machine for cutting a vegetable product includes a frame, supporting a product flow path, at least three links, pivotally attached to the frame, a cutting plate, pivotally attached to each of the three links at three pivot points and oriented substantially perpendicular to the flow path, a plurality of cutting knives, carried by the cutting plate, each having a generally corrugated configuration defining adjacent peaks and troughs, the cutting knives oriented angularly with respect to each other, and a drive motor, coupled to rotationally drive at least one of the links with respect to the frame, whereby the cutting plate moves in an orbital motion in a plane substantially perpendicular to the flow path, thereby moving the cutting knives sequentially and repeatedly across the product flow path.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and constructs for producing heterologous peptides and proteins in plants in a safe and controlled manner. One aspect of the present invention provides a method of producing heterologous protein in a transformed potato plant using an expression cassette comprising a gene coding for a protein or peptide of interest and a marker gene, a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing patatin expression, along with a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing CD4B expression, and/or a nucleotide sequence capable of overexpressing P19. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of producing a heterologous protein in a transformed potato plant using an expression cassette comprising a gene coding for a protein or peptide of interest, a marker gene, a transit peptide sequence, and a nucleotide sequence capable of suppressing ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase expression.

Abstract: A potato cultivar designated E12 is disclosed. The invention relates to the tubers of potato cultivar E12, to the seeds of potato cultivar E12, to the plants of potato E12, to the plant parts of potato cultivar E12, to food products produced from potato cultivar E12, and to methods for producing a potato plant produced by crossing potato cultivar E12 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a potato plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic potato plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from potato variety E12, to methods for producing other potato cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from potato cultivar E12 and to the potato plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods.

Abstract: The present disclosure concerns methods for identifying genetic material in recombinant potato plants, including in food products made from such plants. The disclosure relates to the materials, including nucleotide primers and probes, utilized in the methods set forth herein. Furthermore, the disclosure provides for non-naturally occurring nucleotide junction sequences per se that result from genetic recombination events and methods of detecting said junction sequences.

Abstract: A potato cultivar designated J3 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar J3, to seeds of potato cultivar J3, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar J3, to food products produced from potato cultivar J3, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar J3 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar J3, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar J3 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar J3 with another potato cultivar.

Abstract: A potato cultivar designated J55 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar J55, to seeds of potato cultivar J55, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar J55, to food products produced from potato cultivar J55, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar J55 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar J55, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar J55 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar J55 with another potato cultivar.

Abstract: A potato cultivar designated F10 is disclosed. The invention relates to tubers of potato cultivar F10, to seeds of potato cultivar F10, to plants and plant parts of potato cultivar F10, to food products produced from potato cultivar F10, and to methods for producing a potato plant by crossing potato cultivar F10 with itself or with another potato variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a transgenic potato plant and to the transgenic potato plants and parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to potato plants and plant parts derived from potato cultivar F10, to methods for producing other potato plants or plant parts derived from potato cultivar F10 and to the potato plants and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid potato tubers, seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing potato cultivar F10 with another potato cultivar.

Abstract: Turfgrass varieties with desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently are provided. Also provided is a method of producing a turfgrass plant having desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently. The turfgrass plants of the present invention display green leaf chlorophyll concentrations above 1.8 mg/g and a field insitu CM-1000 chlorophyll meter reading of 341.7 or higher, as well as high general turfgrass quality ratings. The turfgrass plants of the present invention retain a dark green color even when scalped back by infrequent mowing.

Abstract: Turfgrass varieties with desirable looking turf when mowed infreqently are provided. Also provided is a method of producing a turfgrass plant having desirable looking turf when mowed infrequently. The turfgrass plants of the present invention display green leaf chlorophyll concentrations above 1.8 mg/g and a field insitu CM-1000 chlorophyll meter reading of 341.7 or higher, as well as high general turfgrass quality ratings. The turfgrass plants of the present invention retain a dark green color even when scalped back by infrequent mowing.