Patents Assigned to Mendel Biotechnology
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Patent number: 8030546Abstract: Transcription factor polynucleotides and polypeptides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs, including expression vectors, have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these constructs have been shown to be more resistant to disease (in some cases, to more than one pathogen), or more tolerant to an abiotic stress (in some cases, to more than one abiotic stress). The abiotic stress may include, for example, salt, hyperosmotic stress, water deficit, heat, cold, drought, or low nutrient conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: T. Lynne Reuber, Oliver Ratcliffe, Karen S. Century, Neal I. Gutterson, Roger Canales, Emily L. Queen
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Patent number: 8022274Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into nucleic acid constructs have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer earlier flowering, longer floral organ retention, increased cold tolerance, greater tolerance to water deprivation, altered carbon-nitrogen balance sensing, increased low nitrogen tolerance, and/or increased tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Jose Luis Riechmann, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber, Katherine Krolikowski, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Robert A. Creelman, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Paul Chomet
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Patent number: 7994394Abstract: Disease-inducible promoter sequences have been identified that may be used to produce transgenic plants that are both more resistant to disease than control plants, and are wild-type or nearly wild type in appearance. Any of these disease-inducible promoters may be incorporated into expression vectors that each comprise a defense response protein operably linked to the promoter. The expression vectors can be introduced into plants and the defense response protein then ectopically expressed. Transgenic plants transformed with many of these expression vectors have been shown to be more resistant to disease, in some cases, to more than one type of pathogen, and yet are similar to wild type plants in their morphology and development.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Luc Adam, T. Lynne Reuber, Karen S. Century
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Publication number: 20110179520Abstract: Tissue-enhanced promoter sequences were identified that enhance expression of a polypeptide in one or more plant tissues. These promoters may be used to produce transgenic plants that have an altered trait relative to control plants. In preferred embodiments, the transgenic plants with the improved traits are morphologically and/or developmentally similar to control plants (examples of the latter include wild-type or non-transformed plants of the same species). Any of these tissue-enhanced promoters may be incorporated into a nucleic acid construct that comprises a polynucleotide regulated by one such promoter and that encodes a polypeptide or RNA molecule that, when ectopically expressed, confers an improved trait in plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Suqin CAI, Hans E. Holtan, Peter P. Repetti, T. Lynne Reuber
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Publication number: 20110173712Abstract: Altering the activity of specific regulatory proteins in plants, for example, by knocking down or knocking out HY5 clade or STH2 clade protein expression, or by modifying COP1 clade protein expression, can have beneficial effects on plant performance, including improved stress tolerance and yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2009Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Rajnish Khanna, Oliver Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Patent number: 7960612Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignees: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc., Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: James Z. Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam, Joseph M. Palys, T. Lynne Reuber, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Robert A. Creelman, Raymond R. Samaha, Pierre E. Broun
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Publication number: 20110138499Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam
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Patent number: 7956242Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel, Luc J. Adam
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Publication number: 20110126326Abstract: A new and strong transcriptional activation domain was identified from the Arabidopsis protein Ethylene Response Factor 98 (AtERF98). This domain has been designated as the “EDLL domain” and has a number of highly conserved amino acid residues that are found throughout the members of the AtERF98 family from plants, including in monocot and eudicot orthologs. The EDLL domain was shown to be highly active when it was fused to transcription factors from plant and yeast, and was also shown to have activation potential comparable to the widely-used VP16 activation domain derived from Herpes simplex. The EDLL domain was also active when it was targeted to a gene promoter by a sequence-specific DNA binding protein or by protein-protein interactions. Unlike other known activation domains such as VP16 and GAL4, the EDLL domain is relatively small in size, and being of plant origin, it is favored as a strong transcriptional activation tool for application in transgenic food crops.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Shiv Tiwari, Roger Canales, T. Lynne Reuber, Karen S. Century, Oliver Ratcliffe
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Publication number: 20110119789Abstract: The invention is directed to transgenic plants transformed with nucleic acids that encode a plant transcription factor that increases the transgenic plant's size and yield and/or delays flowering in the plant, and methods of using and producing the transgenic plants.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Creelman, Luc J. Adam, Jose Luis Riechmann, Jacqueline E. Heard, Omaira Pineda, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Oliver J. Ratcliffe, T. Lynne Reuber
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Patent number: 7939715Abstract: Polynucleotides incorporated into expression vectors have been introduced into plants and were ectopically expressed. The encoded polypeptides of the invention have been shown to confer at least one regulatory activity and confer greater size, greater organ size, greater biomass, greater yield, curlier leaves, darker coloration, greater tolerance to water deprivation, delayed flowering, delayed development, delayed senescence, greater tolerance to cold, and/or greater tolerance to hyperosmotic stress as compared to a control plant.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Oliver J. Ratcliffe, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jeffrey M. Libby, Robert Creelman, Peter P. Repetti, T. Lynne Reuber, Neal I. Gutterson, Ganesh Kumar, Balasulojini Karunanandaa, Karen Gabbert
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Publication number: 20110078806Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties compared to a reference plant. Sequence information related to these polynucleotides and polypeptides can also be used in bioinformatic search methods and is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: MENDEL BIOTECHNOLOGYInventors: CAI-ZHONG JIANG, JACQUELINE E. HEARD, OLIVER RATCLIFFE, ROBERT A. CREELMAN, LUC ADAM, T. LYNNE REUBER, JOSE LUIS RIECHMANN, VOLKER HAAKE, ARNOLD N. DUBELL, JAMES S. KEDDIE, BRADLEY K. SHERMAN
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Patent number: 7897843Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased biomass or improved cold or other osmotic stress tolerance, as compared to wild-type or reference plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Cai-Zhong Jiang, Jacqueline E. Heard, Oliver Ratcliffe, Neal I. Gutterson, Frederick D. Hempel, Roderick W. Kumimoto, James S. Keddie, Bradley K. Sherman, Jeffrey M. Libby, Jindong Sun, Kimberly Faye Zobrist-Duff, Jingrui Wu, Changlin Fu, Stanton B. Dotson, Linda L. Lutfiyya
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Publication number: 20110047651Abstract: Methods and compositions for the efficient transformation of Miscanthus are provided. The method involves infection with Agrobacterium, particularly those comprising a binary vector. In this manner, any gene or nucleotide sequence of interest can be introduced into the Miscanthus plant. The transformed gene or nucleotide sequence of interest will be flanked by at least one T-DNA border and present in the transformed Miscanthus in low copy number. Transformed Miscanthus, cells, tissues, plants, and seed are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Dean Engler, Jianxin Chen
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Patent number: 7888558Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, tolerance low nitrogen, cold and water deficit conditions, and resistance to disease, as compared to wild-type or other control plants.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Neal I. Gutterson, Oliver Ratcliffe, Emily L. Queen, T. Lynne Reuber, Karen S. Century, Roger Canales
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Publication number: 20110010792Abstract: The invention relates to plant transcription factor polypeptides, polynucleotides that encode them, homologs from a variety of plant species, and methods of using the polynucleotides and polypeptides to produce transgenic plants having advantageous properties, including increased soluble solids, lycopene, and improved plant volume or yield, as compared to wild-type or control plants. The invention also pertains to expression systems that may be used to regulate these transcription factor polynucleotides, providing constitutive, transient, inducible and tissue-specific regulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: James Zhang, Frederick D. Hempel
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Publication number: 20110010796Abstract: Water deficit-inducible promoter sequences were identified that may be used to produce transgenic plants that are more tolerant to water deficit and related hyperosmotic stresses than control plants, and yet are wild-type or nearly wild type in appearance. Any of these water deficit-inducible promoters may be incorporated into an expression vector that comprises a polynucleotide regulated by one such promoter and which encodes a polypeptide that, when ectopically expressed, improves water deficit tolerance in plants that are similar to control plants in their morphology and development.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2008Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventors: Peter P. Repetti, Hans E. Holtan, Roderick W. Kumimoto, Oliver J. Ratcliffe
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Patent number: PP22033Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Miscanthus plant named ‘MBS 7001’, characterized by its rigorous growth rate, top leaf height of about 2.7 meters, green-colored leaves, high biomass yield and high tiller density.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventor: Martin Deuter
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Patent number: PP22047Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Miscanthus plant named ‘MBS 7002’, characterized by its rigorous growth rate, plant height of about 2.7 meters, green-colored leaves, high biomass yield and high tiller density.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventor: Martin Deuter
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Patent number: PP22127Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Miscanthus named ‘MBS 1002’, generally characterized by its rigorous growth rate, high biomass yield and high tiller density.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.Inventor: Martin Deuter