Patents Examined by Ashley K Buran
  • Lactuca sativa cultivar valencia
    Patent number: 10966389
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel romaine lettuce cultivar, designated Valencia. Valencia is described as a vigorous romaine cultivar and recommended for the main lettuce growing regions of California and Arizona. This invention thus relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Valencia, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Valencia, to plant parts of lettuce cultivar Valencia, to methods for producing a lettuce cultivar by crossing the lettuce cultivar Valencia with another lettuce cultivar, and to methods for producing a lettuce cultivar containing in its genetic material one or more backcross conversion traits or transgenes and to the backcross conversion lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CENTRAL VALLEY SEEDS, INC.
    Inventors: Adolfo S. Mederos, Tony M. Avila
  • Lactuca sativa cultivar sunland
    Patent number: 10959387
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel romaine lettuce cultivar, designated Sunland. Sunland is described as a vigorous romaine cultivar and recommended for the main lettuce growing regions of California and Arizona. This invention thus relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Sunland, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Sunland, to plant parts of lettuce cultivar Sunland, to methods for producing a lettuce cultivar by crossing the lettuce cultivar Sunland with another lettuce cultivar, and to methods for producing a lettuce cultivar containing in its genetic material one or more backcross conversion traits or transgenes and to the backcross conversion lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Central Valley Seeds, Inc.
    Inventors: Adolfo S. Mederos, Tony M. Avila
  • Lettuce variety 42-167 RZ
    Patent number: 10952387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 42-167 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 42-167 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 42-167 RZ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.
    Inventors: Maria Helena Roosenboom-Kooijmans, Willem Van Vliet
  • Lettuce variety NUN 6040 LT
    Patent number: 10945394
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a new and distinct variety of lettuce, NUN 6040 LT, as well as seeds and plants and heads or leaves thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
    Inventors: Juan Francisco Muñoz Muñoz, Johan Van Zee
  • Lettuce variety Takita
    Patent number: 10945395
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Takita and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection AG
    Inventor: Miguel Roca
  • Lettuce variety NUN 07839 LTL
    Patent number: 10939635
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of lettuce variety NUN 07839 LTL is disclosed as well as seeds and plants and heads or leaves thereof. NUN 07839 LTL is a red oak baby leaf lettuce variety, comprising resistance to Downy Mildew (Bremia lactutae) isolates Bl:16-35 EU and Nasonovia ribisnigri biotype Nr:0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NUNHEMS B.V.
    Inventor: Johan Engelbert van Zee
  • Alpha amylase mutant inhibitors isolated from phaseolus vulgaris with properties of controlling insect pests, compositions containing such mutants, and method of using thereof
    Patent number: 10941387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of insect pests control, using methods and compositions which comprise of alpha-amylase analogous mutant inhibitors (?AIs). More specifically, the invention provides new ?AIs analogous mutant molecules for controlling insect pests, in particular boll weevils (Anthonomus grandis), partially or totally presenting reduction of the amylolytic activity of the digestive enzymes in the intestinal lumen of the insect. Other aspects of the invention include gene constructs containing the nucleic acid molecules that code for the alpha-amylase inhibitors, heterologous expression methods of the new molecules in the active form, and the use of these molecules for controlling insect pests. The invention also provides analogous synthetic genes optimized for their transformation and expression in plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: EMPRESA BRASILEIRA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA—EMBRAPA
    Inventors: Maria Fatima Grossi De Sa, Maria Cristina Mattar Da Silva, Rafael Perseguini Del Sarto, Thales Lima Rocha
  • Agrobacterium for transient transfection of whole plants
    Patent number: 10934553
    Abstract: A process of transiently transfecting a plant or leaves on a plant, comprising contacting said plant or said leaves with a suspension comprising Agrobacterium cells of strain CryX or a derivative strain of strain CryX, wherein said derivative strain has the chromosomal background of strain CryX or said derivative strain contains the vir plasmid of strain CryX or a derivative of said vir plasmid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nomad Bioscience GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Roemer, Luisa Bortesi, Doreen Tiede, Anatoli Giritch, Yuri Gleba
  • Methods and compositions for the control of rust fungi by inhibiting expression of the HXT1 gene
    Patent number: 10920240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the control of plant fungal pathogens, particularly rusts, by inhibiting one or more biological functions of such plant fungal pathogens, particularly by inhibiting a fungal HXT1 gene using RNA interference (RNAi).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED, US LLC, UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM
    Inventors: Pierrick Gautier, Tobias Link, Manuel Mueller, Stéphane Peyrard, Ralf Voegele
  • Maize event MON87429 and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 10920239
    Abstract: The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules that are unique to maize event MON87429 and transgenic maize plants, maize plant parts, maize seeds, maize cells, and agricultural products containing maize event MON87429 as well as methods of using and detecting maize event MON87429. Transgenic maize plants containing maize event MON87429 exhibit tolerance to inhibitors of acetyl CoA carboxylase (ACCase) in the aryloxyphenoxy propionate (FOP) group, synthetic auxins, inhibitors of glutamine synthetase, and inhibitors of 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Christine M. Ellis, Michael E. Goley, Jintai Huang, Tracy E. Klingaman, Clayton T. Larue, Youlin Qi, Oscar C. Sparks, Brook M. Van Scoyoc, Heping Yang
  • Maize hybrid X95N809
    Patent number: 10912265
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X95N809 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X95N809 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95N809 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X95N809, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95N809 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95N809 and methods of using maize variety X95N809 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Edwin Michael Grote, Thomas Craig Kevern
  • Soybean variety 01072737
    Patent number: 10912270
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072737. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072737. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072737 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072737 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Heinrich S. Wohleser
  • Maize hybrid X13N251
    Patent number: 10905069
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X13N251 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13N251 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13N251 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X13N251, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13N251 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13N251 and methods of using maize variety X13N251 are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: Andrew Jon Ross
  • Expression of transcription regulators that provide heat tolerance
    Patent number: 10907172
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of producing a desired phenotype in a plant by manipulation of gene expression within the plant. The method relates to means to increase expression level of a bHLH subgroup 1b gene expression or activity, wherein a desired phenotype such as increased heat tolerance relative to a wild type control plant following heat stress results in reduced flower abortion and increased yield. Included are plants produced by said methods. The invention also relates to nucleic acid sequences and constructs useful such methods and methods of generating and isolating plants having increased expression of a bHLH subgroup 1b expression or activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Performance Plants, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangxin Wan, Yafan Huang
  • Means and methods to induce apomixis in plants
    Patent number: 10907174
    Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules for use in inducing apomixis in a plant, transgenic cells, in particular transgenic plant cells, comprising said nucleic acid molecule, transgenic plants, in particular plant seeds, comprising said nucleic acid molecule, methods for inducing apomixis in a plant, methods for the production of apomictic plants and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR PFLANZENGENETIK UND KULTURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG GATERSLEBEN (IPK)
    Inventors: José M. Corral, Timothy Sharbel
  • Soybean variety 01072744
    Patent number: 10905071
    Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072744. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072744. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072744 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072744 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Heinrich S. Wohleser
  • Transgenic plants with enhanced traits
    Patent number: 10889828
    Abstract: This disclosure provides plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency and increased water use efficiency: propagules, progeny and field crops of such plants; and methods of making and using such plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with the composition, or with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting events for the desired enhanced trait.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Abad, Monnanda S. Rajani, Tyamagondlu V. Venkatesh, Kammaradi R. Vidya
  • Hemp plant named ‘Lindorea’
    Patent number: 10888059
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a new and distinct hemp cultivar designated ‘LINDOREA’. The present disclosure relates to seeds of the hemp plant ‘LINDOREA,’ to plants and parts of the hemp plant ‘LINDOREA,’ and to methods for producing a hemp plant by crossing the hemp plant ‘LINDOREA’ with itself or other cannabis plants. The disclosure further relates to the morphological and physiological characteristics of the new and distinct hemp cultivar and its uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Charlotte's Web, Inc.
    Inventor: Keri Reel
  • Regulation of zinc deficiency and tolerance in plants
    Patent number: 10870862
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method to change the capacity of a plant for adaptation to changes in the zinc concentration in the environment, especially the soil, comprising providing said plant with a nucleotide according to SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO: 2 or an ortholog thereof. Such a method is especially useful to decrease Zn deficiency or to (hyper)accumulate Zn in plants for bioremediation or for biofortification. Transgenic plants for these proteins are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT
    Inventors: Ana Gonçalves Leite De Assunçao, Martinus Gerardus Maria Aarts
  • Maize inbred 3AAXI2080
    Patent number: 10869447
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated 3AAXI2080 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 3AAXI2080 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 3AAXI2080 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 3AAXI2080 or a locus conversion of 3AAXI2080 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: AGRIGENETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Yanxin Star Gao, Ken Alan Mayberry, Bruce Allen Nagel