Abstract: Methods are disclosed to achieve an improvement in the characteristics and yield of cotton fibers. In one method, a cotton plant of the genus Gossypium in seed form or in growth stage is treated with a brassinosteroid. In another method, an ovule culture is prepared from a cotton plant of the genus Gossypium in a brassinosteroid-containing liquid medium. Cotton fibers with improved fiber characteristics are obtained from the cotton bolls of the treated plant or from the cultured ovules.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 38K06, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 38K06, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 38K06. This invention also relates to methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic maize plants produced by that method. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize lines derived from hybrid maize line 38K06 and to the maize lines derived by the use of those methods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a complete cDNA sequence and partial DNA sequences encoding maize acetyl CoA carboxylase and methods for altering the oil content of plants by introducing and expressing a maize acetyl CoA carboxylase gene in plant cells.

Abstract: The subject invention concerns materials and methods useful in the control of pests and, particularly, plant pests. More specifically, the subject invention provides plant-optimized, polynucleotide sequences that encode pesticidal toxins (full-lengthand truncated). Truncated polynucleotide sequences can be used to produce truncated toxins or for the production of fusion (or chimeric) genes and proteins. The polynucleotide sequences of the subject invention have certain modifications, compared to wild-type sequences, that make them particularly well-suited for optimized expression in plants. Using techniques known to those skilled in the art, the polynucleotide sequences described herein can be used to transform plants in order to confer pest resistance upon the plants.

Abstract: Disclosed are nucleic acids from tomato encoding polypeptides having xyloglucan endo-transglycosylase (XET) activity, comprising residues 21-289 of the amino acid sequence shown in FIG. 1 (SEQ ID NO:2) or or comprising residues 19-287 of the amino acid sequence shown in FIG. 5 (SEQ ID NO:8), and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 952057703252, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 952057703252, to the plants of soybean 952057703252 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing the cultivar 952057703252 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 952057703252 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: Isolated DNA molecules encoding an AlyAFP antifungal polypeptide from Alyssum are disclosed. The isolated DNA molecules comprise the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:12 or encode the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:2. Also disclosed are vectors and transgenic plants comprising said DNA molecules and a method for reducing fungal damage in a plant with said DNA molecule. The isolated DNA molecules may be used to prepare transgenic plants that exhibit reduced damage from fungi as compared to non-transgenic plants. The isolated DNA molecules may be used in combination with additional nucleic acid sequences encoding anti-fungal or anti-insect proteins or polypeptides.

Abstract: A broad spectrum Bacillus thuringiensis strain, BtC-18, is provided which displays pesticidal activity against nematodes and against insects from the orders Lepidoptera, Diptera and Coleoptera.

Abstract: The invention provides isolated Hm2 nucleic acids. The invention further provides expression cassettes, transferred host cells, and transgenic plants. Also, the invention provides methods of imparting disease resistance to plants susceptible to fungal pathogens, which utilize cyclic tetrapeptide toxins.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to genes from maize encoding proteins which suppress plant cell death and methods of plant transformation therewith.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 9581419733880, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 9581419733880, to the plants of soybean 9581419733880 and to methods for producing a soybean plant by crossing the cultivar 9581419733880 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 9581419733880 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: Transgenic plants transformed with a tomato aspermy virus 2b gene or active fragment thereof exhibit resistance to diseases caused by infectious pathogens, such as viruses. Expression of the 2b gene causes activation of hypersensitive response and expression of pathogenicity-related proteins in plants that are incapable of such a response to certain pathogens. Transformation of a wide variety of plants with expression vectors in which the tomato aspermy virus 2b gene is operably linked to a plant-active promoter renders the plant resistant to pathogenic infection.

Abstract: New ACC synthase genes from pineapple are disclosed which have utility as targets for the generation of transgenic plants in which the expression of ACC synthase is substantially controlled to effect the regulation of plant development, and, in particular, initiation of natural flowering.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a promoter functional in plant cells and plasmid that can regulate efficient expression of a gene of interest in plant cells. The promoter comprises a G-Box element, which enhances expression of an operably linked gene of interest in plants or plant cells. A further object of the invention is the plasmid pGbox10 or pGbox11, as well as plants or plant cells transformed with said plasmid.

Abstract: A plant exhibiting resistance to at least one disease is provided. The plant includes an expression cassette including a thionin gene from Avena sativa, which is capable of expressing the thionin protein. A method for producing the plant is also provided. The method includes the steps of constructing an expression vector containing an expression cassette including a thionin from Avena sativa gene, which is capable of expressing the thionin protein, transforming a plant cell with the expression vector, and regenerating a plant from the transformed plant cell. The plant exhibits resistance to at least one disease such as a disease caused by a plant pathogenic bacterium (e.g., a bacterium causing bacterial leaf blight of rice or a bacterium causing bacterial seedling blight of rice) or a plant pathogenic filamentous fungus (e.g., a fungus causing late blight of potato). A seed obtained from the above disease resistant plant is also provided.

Abstract: A gene which encodes an ACC synthase is isolated from rose plants, specifically Rosa (cardinal red). This gene is modified for expression in transgenic plants. Isolation of high quality mRNA for gene isolation is achieved through use and adaptation of a 2-butoxyethanol precipitation technique using large amount of initial tissue in order to achieve critical mass for precipitation.

Abstract: A cold-inducible promoter region and a tuber-specfic promoter region from an &agr;-amylase gene from Solanum tuberosum are described. The promoter regions can be used to express a gene of interest in plants or plant cells.

Abstract: Cotton fiber tissue-specific genes disclosed herein are specifically expressed in a cotton fiber tissue at the stage of cotton fiber elongation. One of the genes was first derived from a cotton plant of the genus Gossypium and found to change the degree of its expression by treatment with a brassinosteroid.

Abstract: Synthetic DNA sequences which are optimized for expression in plants, particularly maize, and which encode a Bacillus thuringiensis protein that is toxic to specific insects are provided, along with methods for the engineering of any synthetic insecticidal gene in maize.

Abstract: A novel soybean cultivar, designated 943337616696, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 943337616696, to the plants of soybean 943337616696 and to methods for producing a soybean plant by crossing the cultivar 943337616696 with itself or another soybean variety. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar 943337616696 with another soybean cultivar.