Patents Assigned to Plant Biosciences Limited
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Publication number: 20140250549Abstract: The invention is based on an expression enhancer sequence derived from the RNA-2 genome segment of a bipartite RNA virus, in which a target initiation site in the RNA-2 genome segment has been mutated. Deletion of appropriate start codons upstream of the main RNA2 translation initiation can greatly increase in foreign protein accumulation without the need for viral replication. Also provided are methods, vectors and systems, including the ‘hyper-translatable’ Cowpea Mosaic Virus (“CPMV-HT”) based protein expression system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITEDInventors: Frank Sainsbury, George Peter Lomonossoff
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Publication number: 20140223603Abstract: The invention relates to transgenic plants with improved growth and nitrogen use efficiency expressing nitrate transporter gene, methods of making such plants and methods for improving growth and nitrogen use efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicants: Plant Bioscience Limited, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityInventors: Guohua Xu, Xiaorong Fan, Qirong Shen, Anthony Miller
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Patent number: 8779236Abstract: Methods are disclosed for screening for the occurrence of gene silencing (e.g., post transcriptional gene silencing) in an organism. Also provided are methods for isolating silencing agents so identified.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: David Charles Baulcombe, Andrew John Hamilton
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Publication number: 20140189905Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining the genotype of a Cruciferous vegetable plant for a plant with an increased glucosinolate level, comprising obtaining a sample of nucleic acids from said plant or a portion thereof and detecting in said nucleic acids a polymorphism at the Myb28 locus that is genetically linked to an increased glucosinolate level.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicants: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITED, SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventors: RICHARD F. MITHEN, Maria Traka, Bart W. Brugmans
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Patent number: 8759102Abstract: Cells that have been exogenously supplied with short RNA molecules to effect posttranscriptional gene silencing are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2004Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: David Charles Baulcombe, Andrew John Hamilton
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Publication number: 20140157457Abstract: The application relates to methods for increasing plant yield and transgenic plants with increased yield using a plant protease.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicants: Plant Bioscience Limited, Universidad Nacional De La Plata, Consejo Nacional De Investigaciones Cientificas Y TecnicasInventors: Juan Jose Guiamet, Dana Ethel Martinez
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Publication number: 20140150132Abstract: Identification of new FAD2 mutants which result in plants with a more desirable oleic acid composition than in known plants. For the first time, this patent disclosure provides a complete characterization of the genome of a given germplasm of Brassica napus, and reports that there are, in fact, four FAD2 genes in any given genotype, and that in any given germplasm, one or more of the genes are active, thereby reducing the total percentage of oleic acid achievable in the total fatty acids produced in that germplasm. Armed with this knowledge, the inventors herein have produced a novel series of modifications in the genome of various Brassica napus germplasms and provide a germplasm with a compromised and/or totally inactive set of FAD2 genes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITEDInventors: Ian Bancroft, Rachel Wells
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Patent number: 8674084Abstract: The inventions is based on an expression enhancer sequence derived from the RNA-2 genome segment of a bipartite RNA virus, in which a target initiation site in the RNA-2 genome segment has been mutated. Deletion of appropriate start codons upstream of the main RNA2 translation initiation can greatly increase in foreign protein accumulation without the need for viral replication. Also provided are methods, vectors and systems, including the ‘hyper-translatable’ Cowpea Mosaic Virus (‘CPMV-HT’) based protein expression system.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Frank Sainsbury, George Peter Lomonossoff
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Publication number: 20140075590Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the elevation of glucoraphanin compared to standard Brassica oleracea varieties. The invention also relates to the production of hybrid varieties having desired glucosinolate contents. The invention further provides plants, plant parts, and seeds comprising such traits and comprising a Myb28 allele from Brassica villosa that is not genetically linked to an ELONG allele from Brassica villosa.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicants: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITED, SEMINIS VEGETABLE SEEDS, INC.Inventors: FRANCISCUS G. VAN DEN BOSCH, Gerard N. Koorevaar, Richard F. Mithen
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Patent number: 8647875Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding a CYP51H. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotide of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2008Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Plant Biosciences LimitedInventors: Anne Osbourn, Xiaoquan Qi
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Publication number: 20140007294Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and uses for improving traits in plants which are important in the field of agriculture. In particular, the methods and uses of the invention use a plant Hsf to increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, drought or pathogen resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITEDInventors: Phil Mullineaux, Ulrike Bechtold
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Patent number: 8614369Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of ?-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Anne Osbourn, Xiaoquan Qi
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Publication number: 20130247245Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of ?-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: PLANT BIOSCIENCE LIMITEDInventors: Anne OSBOURN, Xiaoquan Qi
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Publication number: 20130239252Abstract: H2A.Z containing nucleosomes mediate the thermosensory response in plants and other eukaryotes and modifications to H2A.Z alter such responses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2010Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Philip Wigge, Vinod Kumar
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Patent number: 8519113Abstract: This invention comprises a combined transgene/virus vector system for the expression of heterologous proteins in plants. While exemplified with respect to the bipartite RNA plant virus, Cowpect mosaic virus (CPMV), other bipartite viral systems may be used to advantage according to the method, system and composition described in detail herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2006Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: George Lomonossoff, Li Liu, Carmen Canizares, Marc-Andre D'Aoust, Louis-Philippe Vezina
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Patent number: 8507756Abstract: The invention provides seed treatment compositions as well as their use, methods for treating seeds, methods of protecting plants against pests and also treated seeds and plants. In one embodiment there is provided a method of treating a seed with a seed treatment composition to induce a plant resistance mechanism against one or more pests in a plant grown from said seed.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Michael Richard Roberts, Nigel Duncan Paul, Jane Elizabeth Taylor, Patricia Croft, Jason Paul Moore
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Patent number: 8470995Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding enzymes consisting of a carboxypeptidase-like protein, a methyltransferase and a glucosyltransferase, involved in the biosynthesis of ?-amyrin-derived triterpenes in plants and seeds. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotides of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Anne Osbourn, Xiaoquan Qi
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Patent number: 8455214Abstract: The present invention provides methods for determining a putative antibacterial, the methods comprising determining whether the putative antibacterial inhibits GlgE or Rv3032. The present invention also provides the antibacterial, the pharmaceutical composition and the method of making the antibacterial as well as a method of treating a subject infected with a bacterial comprising administration of the antibacterial.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignees: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: William R. Jacobs, Jr., Rainer Kalscheuer, Stephen Bornemann, Karl Syson
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Patent number: 8445747Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and uses for improving traits in plants which are important in the field of agriculture. In particular, the methods and uses of the invention use a plant Hsf to increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, drought or pathogen resistance.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Phil Mullineaux, Ulrike Bechtold
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Patent number: 8435036Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus for simulating digestion of a foodstuff, which apparatus comprises: (a) an outer containment vessel into which fluid can be introduced and removed via at least one orifice, and (b) an inner digestion chamber comprising a rigid portion through which the foodstuff can be introduced and a flexible portion which tapers from the rigid portion to an aperture from which the foodstuff can be removed, wherein said inner chamber is securable within the outer vessel such that reversible alteration of fluid pressure within the outer vessel causes reversible partial compression of the flexible portion for mixing foodstuff present therein. The invention also provides systems and methods for simulating digestion of a foodstuff.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Plant Bioscience LimitedInventors: Martin Wickham, Richard Faulks