Patents Examined by Erich E. Veitenheimer
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Patent number: 5763741Abstract: A soft-milling wheat which produces dough having exceptionally low visco-elasticity is provided by breeding from a variety having Glu-Dl double null trait, such as the landrace "Nap Hal". The wheat can be used in the manufacture of biscuits and wafers without the need to treat the flour with agents such as sodium metabisulphite.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1995Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings BVInventor: Peter Ivor Payne
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Patent number: 5693506Abstract: This invention provides for the secretion of heterologous protein in plant systems. In particular, this invention provides for the production of heterologous proteins in plant cultu1res and seeds. Where seeds are the source of the protein, the heterologous genes are expressed during germination and isolated from a malt.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1993Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventor: Raymond L. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 5648593Abstract: New and distinct varieties of Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium plants exhibit environmental stress tolerance over a temperature range extending as low as about 17.degree. F. and as high as about 115.degree. F., and are also capable of producing flowers having an endogenous pyrethrin content of at least about 1.5%. The new varieties include both triploid plants which are largely sterile, and diploid plants which exhibit good cross fertility.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1994Date of Patent: July 15, 1997Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, on behalf of the University of ArizonaInventor: Robert G. McDaniel
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Patent number: 5642586Abstract: A method of improving growth characteristics of orchid plants by applying alcohol to the orchid plant roots.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1995Date of Patent: July 1, 1997Inventor: Jerome A. Rodder
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Patent number: 5641664Abstract: A rapid and efficient method for transforming monocotyledonous plants, especially gramineous plants, particularly corn, using either intact tissue capable of forming compact embryogenic callus or compact embryogenic callus obtained from such tissue to obtain transgenic monocotyledonous plants, is provided. Preferably, the tissue or embryogenic callus is wounded and/or degraded prior to transformation. The resulting wounded and/or degraded, intact tissue or compact embryogenic callus is then transformed, preferably by direct gene transfer, e.g., by means of electroporation, with one or more DNA fragments (e.g., foreign DNA fragments).Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1993Date of Patent: June 24, 1997Assignee: Plant Genetic Systems, N.V.Inventors: Kathleen D'Halluin, Elke Gobel
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Patent number: 5633433Abstract: Guayule rubber particles, contain several characteristic proteins. The most abundant of these proteins, the rubber particle protein (RPP) has been shown to be a non-monooxygenase, cytochrome P450, heme-binding protein that is necessary for rubber biosynthesis. A full-length cDNA clone for guayule RPP has been isolated, sequenced and characterized. The pRPP30 coding sequence is transferable to other prokaryotic or eukaryotic host organisms wherein the RPP DNA will be expressed to produce functional RPP for rubber biosynthesis.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1994Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents, a body corporate of the State of Arizona, acting for and on behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: Ralph A. Backhaus, Zhiqiang Pan
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Patent number: 5633442Abstract: Described are a method of producing pathogen-resistant plants in which a protein-synthesis inhibitor gene or a fusion product of the protein-synthesis inhibitor gene or of the protein-synthesis inhibitor protein with ligands permitting specific attachment to cells is introduced into the genotype of plants under the control of an active promotor, and the use of the protein-synthesis inhibitor protein obtained by introducing the protein-synthesis inhibitor gene into the bacterial overproducers for making pharmaceutical preparations.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1995Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.v.Inventors: Jeff Schell, Jurgen Logemann, Guido Jach, John Mundy
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Patent number: 5629469Abstract: A novel thiol protease inhibitor peptide is isolated from Diabrotica virgifera designated virgiferin. The DNA encoding virgiferin and modified virgiferin peptides are claimed. These sequences maybe cloned into vectors and used to transform plants conferring reduced susceptibility to damage by plant pests that have thiol proteases as digestive enzymes including insects and nematodes and particularly Coleopteran insects.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1995Date of Patent: May 13, 1997Assignee: Sandoz Ltd.Inventors: Camille Deluca-Flaherty, Victor J. Chan, Liliana E. C. Scarafia, Karen J. Brunke
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Patent number: 5625132Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH08B, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH08B, methods for producing a maize plant produced by crossing the inbred line PH08B with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH08B with another maize line or plant.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1995Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Keith M. Davis
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Patent number: 5625131Abstract: Broadly this invention provides inbred corn line ZS0541. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line ZS0541 are encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred ZS0541 including culturable cells. This invention relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line ZS0541 with at least one other corn line.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1995Date of Patent: April 29, 1997Assignee: Zenco (No. 4) LimitedInventor: Raymond J. Lerette
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Patent number: 5618987Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PH42B, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PH42B, methods for producing a maize plant produced by crossing the inbred line PH42B with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH42B with another maize line or plant.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1995Date of Patent: April 8, 1997Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Loren J. Hoffbeck
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Patent number: 5608145Abstract: The present invention provides polynucleotide sequences encoding high affinity potassium uptake transporters. The polynucleotides of the invention can be used to modulate alkali metal uptake in plants and other organisms.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1994Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Julian I. Schroeder, Daniel P. Schachtman
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Patent number: 5608138Abstract: An inbred maize line, designated PHKV1, the plants and seeds of inbred maize line PHKV1, methods for producing a maize plant produced by crossing the inbred line PHKV1 with itself or with another maize plant, and hybrid maize seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PHKV1 with another maize line or plant.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1995Date of Patent: March 4, 1997Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Michael W. Trimble
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Patent number: 5604121Abstract: The invention relates to the use for control of Homopteran insect pests of a protein which has toxic or antimetabolic effects on them. According to the invention there is provided a transgenic plant comprising a gene coding for a protein which has toxic or antimetabolic effects on Homopteran insect pests, the gene being associated with a promoter which causes the gene to express the protein in the phloem of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1994Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Assignee: Agricultural Genetics Company LimitedInventors: Vaughan A. Hilder, Angharad M. R. Gatehouse, Kevin Powell, Donald Boulter
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Patent number: 5602317Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided an inbred corn line, designated PHAA0. This invention thus relates to the plants and seeds of inbred corn line PHAA0 and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing the inbred line PHAA0 with itself or with another corn plant. This invention further relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PHAA0 with another corn line or plant.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1995Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventor: Roy Luedtke, Jr.
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Patent number: 5602315Abstract: Broadly this invention provides inbred corn line ZS1202. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line ZS1202 are encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred ZS1202 including culturable cells. This invention relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line ZS1202 with at least one other corn line.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1995Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Zenco (No. 4) LimitedInventors: Mark J. Messmer, Richard G. Stelpflug
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Patent number: 5602312Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a hybrid maize plant, designated as 3223, produced by crossing two Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize lines. This invention relates to the hybrid seed 3223, the hybrid plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications of hybrid 3223.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1995Date of Patent: February 11, 1997Assignee: Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.Inventors: Thomas C. Barker, Michael W. Trimble
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Patent number: 5589610Abstract: The invention relates to stamen-specific promoters derived from corn genes. These promoters includes two DNA sequences selected from sequences in SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:3. The invention also includes DNA including the stamen-specific promoters operably linked to a heterologous structural gene. The structural genes include those such as ribonuclease, barnase, and an A fragment of diphtheria toxin. The stamen-specific promoter may have its untranslated leader sequence replaced by the untranslated leader sequence of another gene. The invention also includes plant cells, plants, or seeds including these promoters and promoter-structural gene systems. The promoter may be in DNA that is stably integrated into the plant or seed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1993Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Plant Genetic Systems, N.V.Inventors: Marc De Beuckeleer, Lydia Herdies, Veronique Gossele, Celestina Mariani
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Patent number: 5589624Abstract: The polypeptide with the sequence (SEQ ID NO: 1)______________________________________ Ala--Thr--Tyr--Asn--Gly--Lys--Cys--Tyr--Lys--Lys--Asp-- Asn--Ile--Cys--Lys--Tyr--Lys--Ala--Gln--Ser--Gly--Lys-- Thr--Ala--Ile--Cys--Lys--Cys--Tyr--Val--Lys--Lys--Cys-- Pro--Arg--Asp--Gly--Ala--Lys--Cys--Glu--Phe--Asp--Ser-- Tyr--Lys--Gly--Lys--Cys--Tyr--Cys ______________________________________can be produced by the fermentation of Aspergillus giganteus and used as an antifungal agent.Expression of this polypeptide gene in plants strongly inhibits the growth of phytopathogenic fungi on the plant.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1995Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Hoechst AktiengesellschaftInventors: Norbert Ulbrich, Rolf Hilgenfeld, Heinz Hanel, Burkhard Sachse, Peter Braun, Joachim Wink, Peter Eckes, Jurgen Logemann, Jozef Schell
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Patent number: 5589606Abstract: Broadly this invention provides inbred corn line ZS1679. The methods for producing a corn plant by crossing the inbred line ZS1679 are encompassed by the invention. Additionally, the invention relates to the various parts of inbred ZS1679 including culturable cells. This invention relates to hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line ZS1679 with at least one other corn line.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1995Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Zenco (No. 4) LimitedInventors: Michael R. Buendgen, Bernard J. Hable