Abstract: Brassica plants producing oils with a low total saturated fatty acid content and methods for producing such plants are described. The oils have a low total saturated fatty acid in combination with a low, mid, or high oleic acid content.

Abstract: The present invention relates to glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) gene sequence isolated from Oryza sativa (cv Rasi) and their corresponding encoded polypeptides that confer the traits of improved nitrogen use efficiency in plants. The present invention further relates to the use of these nucleic acid molecules and polypeptides in making transgenic plants, plant cells, plant materials or seeds of a plant having improved nitrogen use efficiency.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 41243017 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 41243017, to the plants of soybean cultivar 41243017, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 41243017, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 41243017. 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 41243017. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 41243017, 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 41243017 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: An inbred sunflower line, designated PH1023B, the plants, plant parts and seeds of inbred sunflower line PH1023B are provided. A sunflower plant, such as an inbred or hybrid, can be produced by crossing the inbred sunflower line PH1023B with itself or with another sunflower plant. Inbred and hybrid sunflower seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line PH1023B with another sunflower line or plants are provided. Methods for producing a sunflower plant such as inbred line PH1023B containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic sunflower plants produced by that method are also disclosed. Inbred sunflower lines derived from the inbred sunflower line PH1023B, methods for producing other inbred sunflower lines derived from inbred sunflower line PH1023B, and the inbred sunflower lines derived by the use of those methods are further described.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to search for a gene having a novel function that can cause an increase or decrease in material productivity, and particularly, fat and oil content. In the present invention, a chimeric protein obtained by fusing a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 158 and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor is expressed in a plant.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to search for a gene having a novel function that can cause an increase or decrease in material productivity, and particularly, fat and oil content. In the present invention, a chimeric protein obtained by fusing a transcription factor consisting of a protein comprising an amino acid sequence shown in any of the even-numbered SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 158 and a functional peptide capable of converting an arbitrary transcription factor into a transcriptional repressor is expressed in a plant.

Abstract: The invention features plant acyl-ACP thioesterase genes of the FatB class and proteins encoded by these genes. The genes are useful for constructing recombinant host cells having altered fatty acid profiles. Oleaginous microalga host cells with the new genes or previously identified FatB genes are disclosed. The microalgae cells produce triglycerides with useful fatty acid profiles.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated HBA2544, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line HBA2544 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line HBA2544, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line HBA2544, and plants produced according to these methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01045914. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01045914. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01045914 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01045914 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

Abstract: Methods and compositions for the production of oil, fuels, oleochemicals, and other compounds in recombinant microorganisms are provided, including oil-bearing microorganisms and methods of low cost cultivation of such microorganisms. Microalgal cells containing exogenous genes encoding, for example, a lipase, a sucrose transporter, a sucrose invertase, a fructokinase, a polysaccharide-degrading enzyme, a keto acyl-ACP synthase enzyme, a fatty acyl-ACP thioesterase, a fatty acyl-CoA/aldehyde reductase, a fatty acyl-CoA reductase, a fatty aldehyde reductase, a fatty acid hydroxylase, a desaturase enzyme, a fatty aldehyde decarbonylase, and/or an acyl carrier protein are useful in manufacturing transportation fuels such as renewable diesel, biodiesel, and renewable jet fuel, as well as oleochemicals such as functional fluids, surfactants, soaps and lubricants.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and method comprising non-canonical (e.g., non-C2H2) zinc finger proteins.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH306764. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH306764, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH306764 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 CH306764.

Abstract: The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01045798. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01045798. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01045798 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01045798 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and method comprising non-canonical (e.g., non-C2H2) zinc finger proteins.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and method comprising non-canonical (e.g., non-C2H2) zinc finger proteins.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV780360. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV780360, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV780360 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 CV780360 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 CV780360.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for changing nitrogen utilization efficiency in a plant comprises regulating the expression of Arabidopsis NRT 1.7 or an ortholog thereof so that the nitrate remobilization from older leaves to young leaves in the plant is regulated, thereby the nitrogen utilization efficiency is changed. The present invention also provides a transgenic plant obtainable by transforming a plant with an expression construct with a high or low level of expression of NRT 1.7. On the other hand, the present invention yet provides a chimera nitrate transporter, a DNA molecule coding for this chimera transporter and an expression vector thereof.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 5321250112 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 5321250112, the plants of soybean 5321250112, to plant parts of soybean 5321250112, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 5321250112 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 5321250112, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 5321250112, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 5321250112 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH525115. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH525115, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH525115 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 CH525115.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention provide methods for differential regulation of fatty acid unsaturation in seed oil and membrane lipids of plants based on modulation of a previously unknown biosynthetic pathway involving a novel phosphatidylcholine: diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase (PDCT) that regulates phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in developing oil seed plants. Specific aspects relate to inventive PDCT polypeptides including, for example, variants, deletions, muteins, fusion proteins, and orthologs thereof (collectively PDCT proteins), to nucleic acids encoding same, to plants comprising such PDCT sequences or proteins or devoid or depleted of such PDCT proteins or sequences, and to methods for generating plants having altered or no PDCT expression and/or activity, including but not limited to methods comprising mutagenesis, recombinant DNA, transgenics, etc.