Abstract: The present invention provides methods and composition for preparing seeds that when cultivated produce pepper plants with seedless fruits. These plants may further be male sterile and contain a stable non-Peterson Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (“CMS”). The invention also provides essentially pure populations of seed that, when grown, produce pepper plants with seedless fruit. Methods are provided comprising crossing a stable non-Peterson CMS plant as a female parent with pepper lines displaying a parthenocarpy trait. The invention also includes the seeds produced by such a method. Methods for breeding and using seedless pepper plants for enhancing the production of fruit under suboptimal temperature conditions are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 21, 2012
Date of Patent:
May 9, 2017
Assignee:
Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
Inventors:
Benoit Gorguet, Carl M. Jones, Dirk Vreugdenhil, Rebeca N. Benitez
Abstract: Methods of identifying a single nucleotide polymorphism associated with a plant trait and methods of identifying a plant having an improved trait. The plant trait is correlated with at least one single nucleotide polymorphism in a microRNA region of a plant genome. Isolated nucleic acids, transgenic plants, and methods of producing the same are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 22, 2016
Date of Patent:
May 9, 2017
Assignee:
Syngenta Participations AG
Inventors:
Dale Wayne Skalla, Joseph Dallas Clarke, V, Ju-Kyung Yu, Daolong Wang, Jianwei Lu
Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods of identifying and/or selecting wheat plants or germplasm by detecting markers associated with flowering date, anther-extrusion, heading date and/or fusarium head blight resistance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 12, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 18, 2017
Assignees:
E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Inventors:
Bill Laskar, Stanley Luck, Ajay Sandhu, Petra Wolters
Abstract: The present invention provides breeding methods and compositions to enhance the germplasm of a plant. The methods describe the identification and accumulation of transgenes and favorable haplotype genomic regions in the germplasm of a breeding population of crop plants.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 21, 2014
Date of Patent:
March 28, 2017
Assignee:
Monsanto Technology LLC
Inventors:
Jason Bull, David Butruille, Sam Eathington, Marlin Edwards, Anju Gupta, Richard Johnson, Wayne Kennard, Jennifer Rinehart, Kunsheng Wu
Abstract: The present invention relates to new Zea mays plants which are resistant to both Western Corn Rootworm (WCR) and European Corn Borer (ECB) and do not express an insecticidal protein derived from Bacillus thuringiensis. The invention is also directed to hybrids, progeny and seeds of those plants.
Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Allium in particular to a new variety of Allium cepa L. designated DULCIANA plants, seeds and bulbs thereof as well as plant breeding methods involving DULCIANA.
Abstract: The invention provides compositions and methods relating to the production of Cucumis melo plants with elevated Brix and/or enhanced fruit color. The invention further provides plants, plant parts, and seeds comprising such elevated Brix. The invention allows introgression of the identified high Brix QTL in an desired genetic background of a sexually compatible plant species.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 1, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 28, 2017
Assignee:
Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc.
Inventors:
Eleni Bachlava, Joseph J. King, Subash Krishnamurthy, Jeffrey M. Mills, Adam M. Wentzell
Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Allium in particular to a new variety of onion designated NUN 2002 ON as well as plants, seeds and bulbs thereof.
Abstract: Disclosed are methods for differentiating fertile and sterile plant lines by detecting markers in chloroplast DNA from plants that have not yet flowered as well as from plant seeds. The method may be applied in selecting a seed lot based on the level of contamination of normal fertile plant line seeds being below a predetermined threshold, e.g., below 1% or 0.1%.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 27, 2012
Date of Patent:
February 21, 2017
Assignee:
ANGLO NETHERLANDS GRAIN B.V.
Inventors:
Carlos Sala, Maria Laura Ramos, Mariano Bulos, Emiliano Altieri
Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting, and/or producing drought tolerant maize plants or germplasm. Maize plants or germplasm that have been identified, selected, and/or produced by any of the methods of the presently disclosed subject matter are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 1, 2014
Date of Patent:
December 27, 2016
Assignee:
Syngenta Participations AG
Inventors:
Venkata Krishna Kishore, Paul Altendorf, Thomas Joseph Prest, Chris Zinselmeier, Daolong Wang, William Briggs, Sonali Gandhi, David Foster, Christine Chaulk-Grace, Joseph Dallas Clarke, V, Allen Sessions, Kari Denise Kust, Jon Aaron Tucker Reinders, Libardo Andres Gutierrez Rojas, Meijuan Li, Todd Warner, Nicolas Martin, Robert Lynn Miller, John Arbuckle, Dale Wayne Skalla, Molly Dunn, Gayle Dace, Vance Cary Kramer
Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Allium in particular to a new variety of Allium cepa L. designated NUN 3010 ON plants, seeds and bulbs thereof as well as plant breeding methods involving NUN 3010 ON.
Abstract: The invention relates to the field of Allium in particular to a new variety of onion. designated NUN 08003 ON as well as plants, seeds and bulbs thereof.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to nuclear encoded dominant male sterile leek plants. A segregation for male sterility of about 50% is observed in the F1. Furthermore genetic markers linked to the nuclear encoded dominant male sterility are identified. The present invention is also directed to methods producing the nuclear encoded dominant male sterile leek plant, to methods producing hybrids from the nuclear encoded dominant male sterile leek plants, to hybrid leek plants, to seeds and parts of plants of the nuclear encoded dominant male sterile leek plants and the hybrids there from. In addition, method to use the genetic markers linked to the nuclear encoded dominant male sterile leek plants are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 16, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 6, 2016
Assignee:
Hazera Seeds B.V.
Inventors:
Jan Leendert Harrewijn, Adrianus Arie Van Der Sijde
Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 43341876 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 43341876, to the plants of soybean cultivar 43341876, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 43341876, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 43341876. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 43341876. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 43341876, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 43341876 with another soybean cultivar.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2015
Date of Patent:
November 22, 2016
Assignees:
Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.
Abstract: Provided are methods for introducing a molecule of interest into a plant cell comprising a cell wall. Methods are provided for genetically or otherwise modifying plants and for treating or preventing disease in plant cells comprising a cell wall.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 12, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 25, 2016
Assignee:
Dow AgroSciences LLC
Inventors:
Jayakumar Pon Samuel, Frank G. Burroughs, Suraj K. Dixit, Mark W. Zettler
Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying, selecting and/or producing a soybean plant or germplasm having iron deficiency chlorosis tolerance. A soybean plant, part thereof and/or germplasm, including any progeny and/or seeds derived from a soybean plant or germplasm identified, selected and/or produced by any of the methods of the present invention is also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 30, 2012
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2016
Assignee:
Syngenta Participations AG
Inventors:
Mark Charles Hamilton, Harish Gandhi, Ainong Shi, Craig Davis, Thomas Joseph Curley, Baohong Guo
Abstract: Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean cultivar, designated 10CR103121, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-122786. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the cultivar, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 10CR103121 cultivar, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.
Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated IQ1883, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line IQ1883 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line IQ1883, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line IQ1883, and plants produced according to these methods.
Abstract: Methods and composition for the production of sorghum hybrids with selected and different flowering times are provided. In accordance with the invention, a substantially continual and high-yield harvest of sorghum is provided. Improved methods of seed production are also provided.
Abstract: This disclosure concerns plants, plant materials, and the oil characteristics thereof. In embodiments, compositions and methods for determining the total oil content of plant materials are provided. Such methods and compositions may in some embodiments allow for the characterization and screening of oil traits and sub-traits that are difficult or impossible to distinguish by conventional techniques.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 28, 2012
Date of Patent:
July 19, 2016
Assignee:
Dow AgroSciences LLC
Inventors:
Thomas G. Patterson, Ted Freeman, Joshua A. Flook