Patents Examined by Jared Shapiro
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Patent number: 9394576Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant breeding and disease resistance. More specifically, the invention provides a method for breeding cotton plants containing one or more quantitative trait loci that are associated with resistance to Root Knot Nematode (RKN), a disease associated with Meloidogyne incognita. The invention further provides germplasm and the use of germplasm containing quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring disease resistance for introgression into elite germplasm in a breeding program, thus producing novel elite germplasm comprising one or more RKN resistance QTL.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Muhammad Bhatti, Roy G. Cantrell, Jinhua Xiao
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Patent number: 9382548Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method for the transduction and/or transfection of plant cells. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have been successfully employed as nanocarriers to deliver proteins and oligonucleotides to single plant cell microspores as well as multi-cellular zygotic embryos. The efficiency of CPP internalization and further delivery of a macromolecular cargo comprising a protein and/or an oligonucleotide can be enhanced by permeabilization of the zygotic embryos.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN IN RIGHT OF CANADA AS REPRESENTED BY THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRI-FOODInventors: Francois Eudes, Archana Chugh
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Patent number: 9353377Abstract: Mesocotyl meristem explants that contain multiple primary meristems are transformed via particle bombardment or Agrobacterium-mediated methods. Regeneration is through an organogenesis pathway that allows for secondary multiple bud formation. This method allows for the genotype independent transformation of varieties of wheat.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Yinghui Dan, Joyce E. Fry
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Patent number: 9332700Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated FF6224, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line FF6224 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line FF6224, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line FF6224, and plants produced according to these methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventor: Glenn Cornell Hile
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Patent number: 9332723Abstract: Crossing a winter B. napus line with a rapid-cycle B. rapa line has been discovered to provide an unexpectedly simple and efficient way to create a modified B. napus with a spring flowering habit. In one implementation, such a modified B. napus or its progeny is crossed with a second winter B. napus line to produce at plant having a winter flowering habit. This allows one to significantly shorten the development cycle for winter-flowering B. napus lines by conducting part of the breeding program with spring-flowering time cycles, then migrating the resultant germplasm back into a winter-flowering line.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATEDInventors: Zhizheng Chen, Benyuan Dang, Daren Kenneth Coonrod
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Patent number: 9332698Abstract: The present invention is in the field of plant breeding and disease resistance. More specifically, the invention includes a method for breeding soybean plants containing quantitative trait loci that are associated with resistance to Asian Soybean Rust (ASR), a fungal disease associated with Phakopsora spp. The invention further includes germplasm and the use of germplasm containing quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring disease resistance for introgression into elite germplasm in a breeding program for resistance to ASR.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: George J. Baley, Vergel C. Concibido, Bradley J. La Vallee
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Patent number: 9332697Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a homozygous non-human organism from a heterozygous non-human organism, which homozygous organism can be crossed to obtain a hybrid, comprising providing a heterozygous starting organism; allowing the organism to produce SDR-0 cells through meiosis, which cells originate from second division restitution; regenerating SDR-0 organisms from the SDR-0 cells; and producing the homozygous organism from the SDR-0 organisms thus obtained. Further provided is a method for producing a hybrid, comprising crossing a first homozygous organism that is produced according to the above method with a second homozygous organism. Also provided is a homozygous non-human organism and hybrid non-human organisms obtainable by these methods. In a preferred embodiment, the organisms are plants.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: RIJK ZWAAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks
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Patent number: 9326463Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a homozygous non-human organism from a heterozygous non-human organism, which homozygous organism can be crossed to obtain a hybrid, comprising providing a heterozygous starting organism; allowing the organism to produce SDR-0 cells through meiosis, which cells originate from second division restitution; regenerating SDR-0 organisms from the SDR-0 cells; and producing the homozygous organism from the SDR-0 organisms thus obtained. Further provided is a method for producing a hybrid, comprising crossing a first homozygous organism that is produced according to the above method with a second homozygous organism. Also provided is a homozygous non-human organism and hybrid non-human organisms obtainable by these methods. In a preferred embodiment, the organisms are plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: RIJK ZW AAN ZAADTEELT EN ZAADHANDEL B.V.Inventors: Cornelis Maria Petrus Van Dun, Robert Helene Ghislain Dirks
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Patent number: 9320211Abstract: The present invention relates to novel Brassica oleracea plants resistant to Albugo candida and the seeds of said plants. The invention also relates to methods of making such plants and for producing seeds thereof. The invention further relates to molecular markers and use thereof in marker assisted breeding and for identifying Albugo candida resistance trait in Brassica oleracea plants.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Enrico Gerardus Albertus Linders, Thaam Wijnker, William Briggs, Sjaak Van Der Ploeg
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Patent number: 9313958Abstract: Provided are a legume containing high concentrations of zinc in the grains, and a method for producing the same. Provided are also grains of a legume, except adzuki bean, containing 5.5 mg/100 g or more of zinc, and a method for producing a legume containing 4.0 mg/100 g or more of zinc in the grains, the method including spraying a solution containing zinc at a concentration of 0.01 to 2% by weight, on the leaves or the raceme regions, starting from the flower bud stage of the legume.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SNOW BRAND SEED CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Yamamoto, Masahiko Yamamoto, Hiroshi Soejima, Hideshi Shinoda, Masanobu Ohashi, Yoshihiko Katsuragawa
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Patent number: 9313970Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV952947. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV952947, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV952947 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 CV952947 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 CV952947.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Nathaniel J. Page
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Patent number: 9315818Abstract: A Geminivirus based expression construct being capable of systemic symptomeless spread in a plant host is provided as well as methods of utilizing same for plant gene expression, gene silencing and plant protection.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Morflora Israel Ltd.Inventors: Ilan Sela, Rita Mozes-Koch, Yuval Peretz, Herve Huet
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Patent number: 9315872Abstract: The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying maize plants that have newly conferred resistance or enhanced resistance to, or are susceptible to, a Fijivirus, particularly Mal de Río Cuarto Virus (MRCV) and/or Maize Rough Dwarf Virus (MRDV). The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct resistant plants or identify and counter-select susceptible plants. Maize plants that display newly conferred resistance or enhanced resistance to a Fijivirus that are generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC., E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: Jose Alejandro Franchino, Enrique Domingo Kreff, Stanley Luck, Teresita Martin, Ana Maria Procopiuk, Guoping Shu, Adriana Tomas
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Patent number: 9309526Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Dale Wayne Skalla, Joseph Dallas Clarke, V, Ju-Kyung Yu, Daolong Wang, Jianwei Lu
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Patent number: 9277724Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01046644. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01046644. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01046644 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01046644 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Craig K. Moots, David R. Wooten, Jr.
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Patent number: 9273321Abstract: The present invention provides assays and methods for efficiently testing a polynucleotide of interest for a phenotype in a root. In some embodiments, the assays and methods include regenerating green tissue that is transgenic for at least one polynucleotide of interest into one or more transgenic plantlets that have at least one transgenic root. Further provided are methods of making a root assay by contacting green tissue with a first rooting medium to produce a plantlet and a plurality of roots. Additionally provided are methods of assaying for insecticidal activity on a live root. Accordingly provided herein is a substantially contamination-free, root bioassay. Further provided are methods of identifying a promoter having activity in a root.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Myeong-Je Cho, David C. Cerf, Deping Xu, Zuo-Yu Zhao
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Patent number: 9241465Abstract: A novel maize variety designated X18D780 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X18D780 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18D780 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X18D780, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18D780. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18D780.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Khusi Ram Tiwari, Terry R. Colbert, William Andrew Wilson, Daniel Joseph Pohl, Randall Newton Holley, Joseph D. Anderson, Ningxia Du, Brian Joseph Bush, Thomas Russell Henry
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Patent number: 9222141Abstract: This disclosure concerns compositions and methods for determining the zygosity of corn plants containing one or more brown midrib (BMR) mutations. The disclosure also concerns methods that are useful for enhancing the breeding process for BMR corn. In certain embodiments, compositions and methods for determining the zygosity of corn plants with respect to the bm3 allele.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Agrigenetics, Inc.Inventors: Wei Chen, Nathan J. VanOpdorp, Siva P. Kumpatla, Chandra-Shekara A. Channabasavaradhya
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Patent number: 9215849Abstract: Methods and compositions for generating haploid organisms are described.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Simon Chan, Ravi Maruthachalam
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Patent number: 9210873Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH348362. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH348362, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH348362 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 CH348362.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Peter J. Lynch, Gary R. Stangland, Gregory J. Holland