Patents Assigned to THE GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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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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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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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
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Patent number: 8816106Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignees: 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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Patent number: 8816111Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignees: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20140199434Abstract: 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: January 28, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicants: GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, MELBOURNE HEALTHInventors: Gregory John Tanner, Crispin Alexander Howitt
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Publication number: 20140165231Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicants: The University Of Melbourne, Grains Research & Development Corporation, The University Of Adelaide, Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Monika Susanne DOBLIN, Filomena Angela PETTOLINO, Antony BACIC, Stephen Alan JOBLING, Geoffrey Bruce FINCHER, Rachel Anita BURTON
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Publication number: 20140101791Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicants: Grains Research and Development Corporation, University of Zurich, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: EVANS LAGUDAH, WOLFGANG SPIELMEYER, BEAT KELLER, SIMON KRATTINGER
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Patent number: 8642846Abstract: 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: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignees: 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: 20130338387Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids, comprising transesterifying triacylglycerols in extracted plant lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Nuseed Pty Ltd, GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20130338388Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted plant lipid, comprising fatty acids in an esterified form.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicants: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Nuseed Pty Ltd, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Surinder Pal Singh, Robert Charles de Feyter
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Publication number: 20130333066Abstract: The present specification teaches the generation of drought tolerant plants. The present disclosure enables manipulation of a phenotypic characteristic referred to herein as “stay-green” to generate drought tolerant plants by recombinant, mutagenic and/or breeding and selection methods. Plant management practice systems to increase crop yield and harvest efficiency in water-limited environments are also taught herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicants: THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INNOVATION, GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, THE TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY SYSTEMInventors: Andrew Kenneth Borrell, David Robert Jordan, John Mullet, Patricia Klein
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Patent number: 8581038Abstract: 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: August 25, 2009Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignees: 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: 20130288318Abstract: The present invention relates to extracted lipid with high levels, for example 90% to 95% by weight, oleic acid. The present invention also provides genetically modified plants, particularly oilseeds such as safflower, which can used to produce the lipid. Furthermore, provided are methods for genotyping and selecting plants which can be used to produce the lipid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: October 31, 2013Applicants: Grains Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Craig Christopher WOOD, Qing LIU, Xue-Rong ZHOU, Allan GREEN, Surinder Pal SINGH, Shijiang CAO
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Publication number: 20120260370Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicants: Grains Research & Development Corporation, Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty LtdInventors: Stefanie Sprunck, Birgit Bellman, Thomas Dresselhaus
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Publication number: 20120252967Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyurethane polymer comprising as part of its polymer backbone an ?-oxy carbonyl moiety of general formula (I), where A and B represent the remainder of the polymer backbone and are the same or different, and R is an optionally substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon having three or more carbon atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2009Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicants: Grains Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Francesca Ercole, Florian Hans Maximilian Graichen, Stella Kyi, Michael Shane O'Shea, Andrew Charles Warden
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Patent number: 8222387Abstract: The present invention relates generally to transcriptional control sequences for effecting expression of a nucleotide sequence of interest in a plant. The present invention is predicated, in part, on the identification and functional characterization of transcriptional control sequences derived from genes which encode polypeptides comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1 and homologs thereof. Among other things, the present invention has identified that transcriptional control sequences derived from the subject genes can effect specific or preferential expression of an operably connected nucleotide sequence in a reproduction-associated plant part such as a seed or anther.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignees: Grains Research & Development Corporation, Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty LtdInventors: Sergiy Lopato, Ming Li