Patents Examined by Ashwin Mehta
  • Elevation of oil levels in plants
    Patent number: 7405344
    Abstract: This present invention provides a method for increasing oil levels in the tissues of Brassica sp. plants by expression of a heterologous multifunctional fatty acid synthase (mfFAS) within the plant. In one embodiment, the present invention provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding mfFAS enzymes from various sources for this purpose, and vectors and plants containing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Toni A. Voelker, Dale L. Val, Thomas J. Savage
  • Plant seed specific promoters
    Patent number: 7405345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel seed specific promoter regions. The present invention further provide methods of producing proteins and other products of interest and methods of controlling expression of nucleic acid sequences of interest using the seed specific promoter regions. The present invention also provides methods of identifying and isolating novel seed specific promoters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Michigan State University
    Inventors: John B. Ohlrogge, Christoph Benning, Hongbo Gao, Thomas Arno Alfred Girke, Joseph A. White
  • Soybean variety XB 10M06
    Patent number: 7399906
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB10M06. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB10M06, to the plants of soybean XB10M06 to plant parts of soybean variety XB10M06 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB10M06 with another soybean plant, using XB10M06 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer HI-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Arthur Fabrizius, Michael Thomas Roach
  • Plants and seeds of corn variety I210136
    Patent number: 7399912
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I210136. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I210136, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety I210136 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety I210136 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety I210136.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: Kevin D. Eichelberger
  • Inducible promoter which regulates the expression of a peroxidase gene from maize
    Patent number: 7393947
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions include a novel nucleotide sequence for an inducible promoter for the gene encoding ZmPOX24. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises stabling incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to the root-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Scott Diehn, Albert L. Lu, Billy F. McCutchen, Lynne E. Sims, Kim R. Ward
  • Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH231398
    Patent number: 7388140
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH231398. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH231398, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH231398 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH231398.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventor: David W. Peters
  • Maize chloroplast protein synthesis elongation factors and methods of use for same
    Patent number: 7388125
    Abstract: The invention discloses a novel heat shock protein with high homology to chloroplast elongation factor EF-Tu. Also disclosed is a transgenic method for enhancing tolerance to heat and drought in female reproductive organs. It involves the temporal and spatial expression of novel heat shock EF-Tu in a plant organ or plant tissue. The invention also includes expression constructs, and methods for the production of crop plants with heritable phenotypes which are useful in breeding programs designed to increase heat and drought tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignees: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., The University of South Dakota
    Inventors: Zoran Ristic, Shailendra K. Bhadula, Genping Yang, Thomas E. Elthon, Jeffrey E. Habben
  • Inbred maize line PH58C
    Patent number: 7381872
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH58C, the seeds and plants of inbred maize line PH58C, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH58C with another maize plant, and seed and plants produced therefrom. The invention also relates to methods for producing a modified PH58C maize plant that comprises in its genetic material one or more transgenes or backcross conversion genes and to the transgenic and backcross conversion maize plants produced by these methods. This invention also relates to methods for producing other inbred and hybrid maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH58C and to the inbred and hybrid maize lines so produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: David Scott Stucker
  • Inbred maize line PH6HR
    Patent number: 7381871
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH6HR, the seeds and plants of inbred maize line PH6HR, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH6HR with another maize plant, and seed and plants produced therefrom. The invention also relates to methods for producing a modified PH6HR maize plant that comprises in its genetic material one or more transgenes or backcross conversion genes and to the transgenic and backcross conversion maize plants produced by these methods. This invention also relates to methods for producing other inbred and hybrid maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH6HR and to the inbred and hybrid maize lines so produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Candice A. C. Gardner, Gary Edward Henke
  • Enzymes involved in triterpene synthesis
    Patent number: 7378278
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding a CYP51H. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs comprising all or a portion of the isolated polynucleotide of the invention, in sense or antisense orientation, operably linked to at least one regulatory sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Plant Bioscience Limited
    Inventors: Anne Osbourn, Xiaoquan Qi
  • Inbred maize line 413A
    Patent number: 7378581
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated 413A, having higher row number and smaller kernel width compared to Ia2132, and herbicide tolerance, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line 413A and descendants thereof, methods for producing a maize plant produced by crossing the inbred line 413A with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line 413A with another maize line or plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Douglas C. Plaisted, Stephen Lambert Grier, Michele L. Gardiner
  • Expression cassettes for seed-preferential expression in plants
    Patent number: 7375209
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with seed-preferential or seed-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At4g12910, At1g66250, At4g00820, At2g36640, At2g34200, At3g11180, At4g00360, At2g48030, At2g38590, At1g23000, At3g15510, At3g50870, At4g00220, or At4g26320.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Elke Duwenig, Linda Patricia Loyall, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Expression cassettes for meristem-preferential expression in plants
    Patent number: 7345216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with meristem-preferential or meristem-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana genes At2g02180, At5g54510, At2g26970, At2g01180, At3g45560, At4g00580, At1g54480, or At4g11490, or the Arabidopsis thaliana genomic sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 35 or 36.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Blueberry red ringspot virus, sequences, promoters, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7344888
    Abstract: A nucleic acid sequence of the blueberry red ringspot virus is disclosed. Also disclosed are putative promoter regions of the sequence and promoter regions capable of directing transgene expression in plants, including tissue-specific expression. Also disclosed are expression vectors, transformed plant cells and plants containing a blueberry red ringspot virus promoter and an encoded product for expression. Methods for diagnosis of blueberry red ringspot virus infection are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Board of Trustees operating Michigan State University
    Inventors: Richard F Allison, Jerri Gillett, Christy Mecey
  • Hybrid corn line G3601
    Patent number: 7342153
    Abstract: Broadly this invention provides an invention which is inbred corn line G3601. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line G3601 are also encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred G3601 including culturable cells. This invention relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line G3601 with at least one other corn line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Syngenta (AT) Limited
    Inventor: Mario Carlone
  • Expression cassettes for guard cell-preferential expression in plants
    Patent number: 7335813
    Abstract: The present invention relates to expression cassettes comprising transcription regulating sequences with guard cell-preferential or guard cell-specific expression profiles in plants obtainable from Arabidopsis thaliana gene At5g58580, or from Arabidopsis genomic DNA sequences as described by SEQ ID NO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, or 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: SunGene GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Keetman, Ute Linemann, Karin Herbers, Helke Hillebrand
  • Plant lesion formation suppressing gene, Sp17 and use thereof
    Patent number: 7329544
    Abstract: The present inventors successfully isolated a lesion formation suppressing gene (Spl7) from rice via a linkage analysis. It was revealed that introduction of this gene into plants enhances their heat stress resistance and that lesion formation can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignees: National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Society for Techno-Innovation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
    Inventors: Masahiro Yano, Utako Yamanouchi
  • Inbred maize line PH705
    Patent number: 7326833
    Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH705, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH705, methods for producing a maize plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred maize line PH705 with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH705 with another maize line or plant and 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 also relates to inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH705, to methods for producing other inbred maize lines derived from inbred maize line PH705 and to the inbred maize lines derived by the use of those methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark David Hoffbeck
  • Soybean variety XB26V05
    Patent number: 7326830
    Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated XB26V05. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety XB26V05, to the plants of soybean XB26V05 to plant parts of soybean variety XB26V05 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety XB26V05 with another soybean plant, using XB26V05 as either the male or the female parent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Roger Schnebly, Bruce Michael Luzzi
  • Plants characterized by an increased content of methionine and related metabolites, methods of generating same and uses thereof
    Patent number: 7323338
    Abstract: A method of increasing methionine and/or methionine related metabolites in a plant is provided. The method is effected by expressing within the plant a cystathionine ?-synthase encoded by a polynucleotide mutated in, or lacking, a region encoding an N-terminal portion of said cystathionine ?-synthase, said region being functional in downregulating an activity of said cystathionine ?-synthase in the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Gavish-Galilee Bio Applications Ltd.
    Inventor: Rachel Amir