Patents Examined by Ashley Kate Buran
  • Nucleic acid construct for increasing abiotic stress tolerance in plants
    Patent number: 10106812
    Abstract: Provided are nucleic acid constructs which comprise a polynucleotide encoding adenosine phosphate-isopentenyltransferase (IPT) operably linked to a stress-related promoter. Also provided are host cells transformed with the nucleic acid constructs, transgenic plants expressing the IPT coding sequence under the transcriptional regulation of a stress-related promoter and methods of using same for increasing abiotic stress tolerance of a plant, and biomass of plants under stress or normal conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
    Inventor: Shimon Gepstein
  • Maize inbred PH2SJ4
    Patent number: 10104857
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH2SJ4 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2SJ4 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2SJ4 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 PH2SJ4 or a locus conversion of PH2SJ4 with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Lora Lynn Kilgore-Norquest
  • Synthetic promoter and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 10072269
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for the design and production of synthetic promoters with a defined specificity and promoters produced with these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: BASF PLANT SCIENCE COMPANY GMBH
    Inventors: Linda Patricia Loyall, Josef Martin Kuhn, Malte Siebert
  • Maize inbred PH2RDY
    Patent number: 10034450
    Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH2RDY and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2RDY with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2RDY 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 PH2RDY or a locus conversion of PH2RDY with another maize variety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas Adam Crowley