Patents Examined by Matthew Keogh
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Patent number: 9185861Abstract: Brassica plants producing oils with a low alpha-linolenic acid content and methods for producing such plants are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Cargill, IncorporatedInventors: Daren Kenneth Coonrod, Kevin Brandt, Honggang Zheng, Zhizheng Chen, Richard Fletcher
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Patent number: 9187758Abstract: Disclosed herein are zinc fingers comprising CCHC zinc coordinating residues. Also described are zinc finger proteins and fusion proteins comprising these CCHC zinc fingers as well as polynucleotides encoding these proteins. Methods of using these proteins for gene editing and gene regulation are also described.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignees: Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Qihua C. Cai, Vipula K. Shukla, Joseph F. Petolino, Lisa W. Baker, Robbi J. Garrison, Ryan C. Blue, Jon C. Mitchell, Nicole L. Arnold, Sarah E. Worden, Jeffrey Miller, Fyodor Urnov
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Patent number: 9173359Abstract: A novel maize variety designated PH1DG3 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1DG3 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1DG3 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1DG3 or a locus conversion of PH1DG3 with another maize variety.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Gustavo Marcelo Garcia
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Patent number: 9169488Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2010Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Kondo, Chikara Ohto, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Masaru Takagi, Kyoko Matsui
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Patent number: 9167774Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH613081. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH613081, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH613081 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 CH613081.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Nicholas P. Ochs, Slobodan Trifunovic
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Patent number: 9167772Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH657855. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH657855, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH657855 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 CH657855.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventor: Richard G. Stelpflug
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Patent number: 9161504Abstract: The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated ID6053, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line ID6053 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line ID6053, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line ID6053, and plants produced according to these methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Syngenta Participations AGInventors: Michael Dragonuk, Dwight Bostwick
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Patent number: 9125359Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH394502. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH394502, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH394502 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 CH394502.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Sandeep Bhatnagar, Mark J. Brinkman, Kevin D. Eichelberger, Sarah Gehlhar, Gregory J. Holland, Daniel J. Lubich, Jeffrey L. McElroy, Laron L. Peters, Duane A. Potrzeba, Hector Ramirez de Leon
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Patent number: 9127288Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of producing lipids. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of increasing the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content in a transgenic organism or part thereof. In one particular embodiment, the present invention relates to the use of an acyltransferase, for example, a monoacylglycerol acyltransferase (MGAT) to increase the level of one or more non-polar lipids and/or the total non-polar lipid content in plants, plant seed and/or leaves, algae and fungi.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: James Robertson Petrie, Thomas Vanhercke, Pushkar Shrestha, Oing Liu, Surinder Pal Singh
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Patent number: 9115370Abstract: The present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding adult plant pathogen resistance proteins. Also provided are transgenic plants expressing these polynucleotides to enhance the resistance of the plants to pathogens.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignees: Grains Research and Development Corporation, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, University of ZurichInventors: Evans Lagudah, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Beat Keller, Simon Krattinger
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Patent number: 9109208Abstract: The invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule that improves aroma production in a plant, and a cell and a transgenic plant comprising the nucleic acid molecule. A protein and a protein complex for catalyzing the synthesis of a monoterpene and a precursor thereof and uses for improving the production of aroma in a plant are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITYInventors: Hong-Hwa Chen, Yu-Yun Hsiao, Wen-Chieh Tsai, Wen-Huei Chen
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Patent number: 9090903Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a nucleic acid fragment or part thereof encoding ?-ketoacyl ACP synthase II (KASII), particularly which derived from Jessenia bataua to enhance the production and the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) in a plant, oil crops of particular.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARDInventors: Umi Salamah Ramli, Ooi Kock Teh
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Patent number: 9090902Abstract: The present invention relates to nucleic acids derived from Drechslera tritici-repentis, Cylindorcarpon herteronema, Diploida natalensis, Stagonospora nodorum, Microdochium nivalae and Periplaneta americana. The invention also relates to the individual coding sequences and to proteins encoded by these sequences in combination with other sequences as well as to a process for converting oleic acid to linoleic acid to Iinoleic acid and the production of arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid and/or docosahexaenoic acid in a plant.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignees: BASF Plant Science GmbH, Bioriginal Food & Science Corp.Inventors: Jörg Bauer, Toralf Senger, Thorsten Zank, Xiao Qiu, Guohai Wu
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Patent number: 9078406Abstract: The present invention provides the transgenic soybean event MON87754, and the cells, seeds, plant parts, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for this transgenic soybean event. The event itself functions to increase the oil content of soybeans carrying the event in their genome relative to commodity versions of soy. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for said soybean event in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of said soybean event nucleotide sequences in a sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said soybean event in a sample, growing the seeds of such soybean event into soybean plants, and breeding to produce soybean plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the soybean event.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Eric Aasen, David Chi, Can Duong
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Patent number: 9068194Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for increasing the leaf-to-root ratio of the signal metabolite 2-oxoglutaramate and related proline molecules in plants by modulating levels of ?-amidase to increase nitrogen use efficiency, resulting in enhanced growth, faster growth rates, greater seed and fruit/pod yields, earlier and more productive flowering, increased tolerance to high salt conditions, and increased biomass yields.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignees: Los Alamos National Security, LLC, University of Maine System Board of TrusteesInventors: Pat J. Unkefer, Penelope S. Anderson, Thomas J. Knight
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Patent number: 9068193Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui
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Patent number: 9062322Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for enhancing various economically important yield-related traits in plants. More specifically, the present invention concerns a method for enhancing yield-related traits in plants by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT (Asparatate AminoTransferase) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding an ASPAT polypeptide, which plants have enhanced yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides hitherto unknown ASPAT-encoding nucleic acids and constructs comprising the same, useful in performing the methods of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: BASF Plant Science GmbHInventor: Yves Hatzfeld
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Patent number: 9062318Abstract: This invention is intended to be used to search for a transcription factor having novel functions of increasing the weight of an individual plant, increasing the weight of a given tissue per individual plant, or improving the productivity of a given substance per individual plant and to improve such properties in the plant. The weight of an individual plant is increased, the weight of a given tissue per individual plant is increased, the productivity of a given substance per individual plant is improved, or the content of a given substance per given tissue of a plant is increased via expression of a transcription factor that has been modified to suppress transcription accelerating activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Chatani, Chikara Ohto, Yukio Okamura, Norihiro Mitsukawa, Nobuhiko Muramoto, Masaru Takagi, Nobutaka Mitsuda, Tomotsugu Koyama, Kyoko Matsui
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Patent number: 9060489Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 30451113 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 30451113, to the plants of soybean cultivar 30451113, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 30451113, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 30451113. 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 30451113. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 30451113, 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 30451113 with another soybean cultivar.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignees: Monsanto Technology LLC, Stine Seed Farm, Inc.Inventor: William H. Eby
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Patent number: 9057075Abstract: The present specification relates to the production of cotton plants and seeds and oil prepared therefrom having elevated levels of oleic and reduced levels of palmitic and linoleic acids. Furthermore, cottonseeds having low levels of cyclopropane and/or cyclopropene fatty acids and/or reduced levels of gossypol are described herein. The specification also describe FatB and CPA-FAS nucleotide and amino acid sequences derived from cotton facilitating, inter alia the direct modification of plant oil content and/or composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Qing Liu, Allan Graham Green, Surinder Pal Singh