Patents Assigned to THE GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20240150782
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 desaturases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240150781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 destaurases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240150780
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 destaurases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240150779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. In particular, the present invention provides ?3 destaurases, ?5 elongases and ?6 desaturases with novel activities. Also provided are methods and DNA constructs for transiently and/or stably transforming cells, particularly plant cells, with multiple genes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11976287
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11960049
    Abstract: Systems and methods are for determining and/or forecasting local atmospheric stability and/or turbulence. This information can be used to inform decisions regarding crop spraying, such as whether the atmospheric conditions are sufficiently turbulent to avoid airborne spray fines drifting in an undesirable manner. For example, a spray drift hazard alert system can include a data logger. The data logger is configured to: receive local meteorological observation data from one or more sensors at a location, analyze the data to determine a local vertical turbulence characteristic indicative of a current level of vertical turbulence at the location, compare the vertical turbulence characteristic with a predetermined threshold of the vertical turbulence characteristic, and transmit information to a client device indicating whether local meteorological conditions are suitable for crop spraying based on the comparison between the vertical turbulence characteristic and the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: The Western Australian Agriculture Authority, Grains Research and Development Corporation
    Inventors: Warwick Grace, Graeme Tepper, Amy Stidworthy, Martin Seaton, David Carruthers
  • Publication number: 20240084214
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, NUSEED NUTRITIONAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
  • Publication number: 20230416186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid wherein the docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid may be preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine, Xue-Rong Zhou
  • Patent number: 11839187
    Abstract: The present invention relates to isolated strains of Epichloƫ endophytes that form symbiotic associations with host plants, wherein the symbiotic associations are combinations of endophytes and host plants that are not found in nature. The invention also relates to combinations of host plants and Epichloƫ endophytes that are not found in nature, methods of making such combinations and methods of conferring at least some level of pest resistance on a host plant using such endophytes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: GRASSLANZ TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, THE GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Edward Hume, Wayne Roydon Simpson, Richard David Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230348357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pai Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine
  • Patent number: 11718577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid wherein the docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid may be preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED NUTRITIONAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine, Xue-Rong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230219879
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pai Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine
  • Patent number: 11623911
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid or microbial lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid, and processes for producing the extracted lipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED NUTRITIONAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine
  • Patent number: 11576326
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wheat plant comprising an Rht-B1 allele which encodes an Rht-B1 (DELLA) polypeptide. Grain from a near-isogenic wheat line comprising the dwarfing Rht-B1c allele was subjected to sodium azide mutagenesis. Plants exhibiting early leaf elongation rates or mature plant height greater than the dwarf parent were selected and the Rht-B1 gene sequenced. This identified 35 mutated alleles of Rht-B1c. Similar methods were also used to identify mutant alleles of the dwarfing sln1d allele in barley, where DELLA is encoded by the sln1 gene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Michael Chandler, Carol Anne Harding
  • Publication number: 20220356414
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Nutritional Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
  • Publication number: 20220340863
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to hydrogels composition comprising protist cells. In particular, the present disclosure relates to hydrogel compositions which may be used to encapsulate or suspend ciliated protist cells, and methods of preparing the same. The present disclosure further relates to methods of infecting molluscs with a ciliated protist cell, and methods and compositions for stabilising ciliated protist cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Helen JACOBE, Ruth Elizabeth HAITES, Sameera SIRISENA
  • Patent number: 11326134
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, MELBOURNE HEALTH
    Inventors: Gregory John Tanner, Crispin Alexander Howitt
  • Patent number: 11306271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, NUSEED NUTRITIONAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
  • Publication number: 20210246097
    Abstract: The present invention relates to lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid wherein the docosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid may be preferentially esterified at the sn-2 position of triacylglycerol, and processes for producing and using the lipid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Pushkar Shrestha, Jason Timothy McAllister, Robert Charles de Feyter, Malcolm David Devine, Xue-Rong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210139809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development Corporation, Nuseed Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter